CYTOGENETICS OF BISEXUAL UNISEXUAL SPECIES OF POECILIA .1. C-BANDS, AG-NOR POLYMORPHISMS, AND SEX-CHROMOSOMES IN 3 POPULATIONS OF POECILIA-LATIPINNA

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SOLA, L [1 ]
MONACO, PJ [1 ]
RASCH, EM [1 ]
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[1] E TENNESSEE STATE UNIV,DEPT BIOPHYS,JOHNSON CITY,TN 37614
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CYTOGENETICS AND CELL GENETICS | 1990年 / 53卷 / 2-3期
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10.1159/000132917
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Q2 [细胞生物学];
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071009 ; 090102 ;
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Three populations of the North American cyprin-odont fish Poecilia latipinna, considered to be one of the progenitor species of the gynogenetic unisexual P.formosa. were analyzed by C-banding and Ag-staining. C-bands were found to be polymorphic, and Ag-staining showed a high degree of variability in both the number and location of nucleolus organizer regions. The C-banding and Ag-staining patterns allow, to a certain extern. to distinguish individual specimens from each of these populations. Females of the three populations were found to have a het-eromorphic chromosome pair, which was frequently identifiable with Giemsa staining and always after C-banding. This pair could be interpreted as sex chromosomes of the ZWZZ type. © 1990 S. Karger AG, Basel.
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