Cytogenetics of Alismatales s.s.: chromosomal evolution and C-banding

Feitoza, L. L.; Félix, Leonardo P.; Castro, Antonio Alberto Jorge Farias; Carvalho, Reginaldo de

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“…The association of CMA bands and 45S rDNA sites in the chromosomes of Pereskioideae may be related to the transcriptional activities of ribosomal cistron genes, which would result in active nucleoli (Ansari et al 1999;Sumner 2003). In other groups of plants, such as the genera Echinodorus (Feitoza et al 2009) and Capsicum (Moscone et al 1995), associations of some CMA bands with nucleoli Figs. 7-13 CMA bands and rDNA sites in chromosome spreads of some species of subfamily Opuntioideae.…”

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CMA band variability and physical mapping of 5S and 45S rDNA sites in Brazilian Cactaceae: Pereskioideae and Opuntioideae

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Representatives of the Cactaceae subfamilies Pereskioideae and Opuntioideae from northeastern Brazil were studied using banding with the fluorochromes, CMA3 and DAPI, as well as with fluorescent in situ hybridization using 45S and 5S rDNA probes to identify the distributions of their heterochromatin and rDNA sites. Pereskia aculeata, P. bahiensis, P. grandifolia (Pereskioideae), Brasilopuntia brasiliensis, Tacinga funalis, and T. palmadora showed 2n = 22, while Opuntia dillenii showed 2n = 44, and O. ficus-indica 2n = 88. The karyotypes of all of the species were symmetric, with average chromosome lengths varying from 1.94 lm in O. dillenii to 3.17 lm in P. aculeata. One pair of terminal CMA? bands corresponding to NORs occurred in all of the diploid cytotypes (except O. ficus-indica, which has two pairs of terminal CMA? bands) as well as in O. dillenii (tetraploid). CMA? bands were also observed in the interstitial region of the long arm of a chromosome pair in B. brasiliensis, while a number of variable proximal bands were observed on three chromosome pairs in O. dillenii and on most of the chromosomes of O. ficus-indica. The 45S rDNA sites corresponded to the terminal CMA? bands, while the 5S rDNA sites were located in the interstitial regions of the long arms of the chromosome pairs of P. aculeata, P. bahiensis, P. grandifolia, and B. brasiliensis. Our data, and earlier publications, suggest that the subfamily Opuntioideae can be characterized as having proximal/interstitial CMA? heterochromatin in at least one chromosome pair (except in Tacinga). The absence of proximal heterochromatic bands, however, appears to be a synapomorphy of the basal lineages of Cactaceae (subfamily Pereskioideae ? Maihuenioideae), suggesting that karyotypes with heterochromatin restricted to the terminal region of a chromosome pair (45S rDNA) represent a plesiomorphic character of the family.

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CMA band variability and physical mapping of 5S and 45S rDNA sites in Brazilian Cactaceae: Pereskioideae and Opuntioideae

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“…Our counts of 2n = 22 (Fig. 14A,B,C, respectively) for the species analyzed here are in agreement with all previous counts for these species (Costa & Forni-Martins, 2003;Costa & al., 2006;Feitoza & al., 2009Feitoza & al., , 2010.…”

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