Análise citogenética clássica, molecular e ultraestrutural em escorpiões da família Buthidae: um enfoque evolutivo

• Autor(a) principal: Mattos, Viviane Fagundes [UNESP]
• Data de Publicação: 2013
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UNESP
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/11449/124381
• topic: Arachnida; Aracnideo; Cromossomos; Complexo sinaptonêmico; Meiose; Escorpião; DNA; Citogenética animal

The family Buthidae has about 900 species taxonomically described; however, less than 5% of these species were analyzed from the cytogenetic point of view. The diploid number in buthid ranges from 2n=5 to 2n=56, and the presence of holocentric chromosomes with synaptic and achiasmatic behavior during the meiosis I is a common feature for all previously studied species. In this work, the mitotic and meiotic chromosomes of 11 species of Buthidae scorpions (Ananteris balzanii, Rhopalurus agamemnon, Rhopalurus rochai, Tityus bahiensis, Tityus confluens, Tityus costatus, Tityus fasciolatus, Tityus maranhensis, Tityus martinpaechi, Tityus paraguayensis and Tityus stigmurus) were studied through classical, molecular and ultrastructural cytogenetic techniques, aiming to establish the responsible mechanisms for inter and intraspecific diversity of chromosomal number and/or origin of the multivalent complex associations observed during the meiosis I, as well as, the holocentric chromosome evolution. In the 11 species examined, the diploid number ranged from 2n=6 to 2n=28; multivalent chromosomal associations were observed in pachytene and postpachytene cells of species of the three genera. Moreover, an intraspecific variability regarding to the presence or absence of chromosome chains and the number of chromosomes involved in multivalent complex associations was observed in A. balzanii, R. agamemnon, R. rochai, T. bahiensis, T. maranhensis and T. paraguayensis. Silver-impregnated cells and nuclei submitted to the FISH technique revealed constancy in relation to the number and localization of the active NORs and rDNA 45S sites, respectively, despite of the high chromosomal variation verified among species, i.e., NORs located on terminal and subterminal region of two chromosomes were the common pattern for buthids... (Complete abstract click electronic access below)