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Provedor de dados: | 83
País: | Brazil
Título: | Cytogenetical and morphological features reveal significant differences among Venezuelan and Brazilian samples of Mugil curema (Teleostei: Mugilidae)
Autores: | Nirchio,Mauro; Cipriano,Roger; Cestari,Margarete; Fenocchio,Alberto.
Data: | 2005-03-01
Ano: | 2005
Palavras-chave: | Karyotype; C-band; NOR-banding; Meristic and morphometric features; Species identification.
Resumo: | Karyotype of M. curema from the Gulf of Mexico and Brazil have been reported as possessing chromosome complement with 2n=28 and FN=48, whereas specimens from Venezuela has been reported as possessing a diploid number 2n=24 and a conserved FN (48). Although at first sight this variation suggests the presence of a chromosomal intraspecific (interpopulational) variability, the possibility that we are dealing with two different species was examined. This work revisit the karyotypes of M. curema from Venezuela and Brazil, including new data on C-banding, and NOR localization, and compares morphologic characteristics of samples from both localities. Thus, besides diploid number, the constitutive heterochromatin distribution and NORs location, mark other differences between M. curema Cytotype 1 (2n=28; FN=48) and Cytotype 2 (2n=24; NF=48). Moreover, morphologic comparison revealed differences in the scale counts and pectoral fin rays: 35 scales in the middle body line and 15 pectoral fin rays in specimens possessing the karyotype 2n=28, compared with 37-39 scales in the middle body line and 17 pectoral fin rays in specimens with the karyotype 2n=24. These differences lead us to suggest that both cytotypes are not related merely to geographic polytipic variations but could correspond to different species.
Tipo: | Info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Idioma: | Inglês
Identificador: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1679-62252005000100006
Editor: | Sociedade Brasileira de Ictiologia
Relação: | 10.1590/S1679-62252005000100006
Formato: | text/html
Fonte: | Neotropical Ichthyology  v.3 n.1 2005
Fonte: | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess