Open-access Cytogenetics as a tool for Triatomine species distinction (Hemiptera-Reduviidae)

Abstract

Several cytogenetic traits were tested a species diagnostic characters on five triatomine species: Rhodnius pictipes, R. nasutus, R. robustus, Triatoma matogrossensis and T. pseudomaculata. Four of them are described for the first time. The detailed analysis of the meiotic process and the application of C-banding allowed us to identify seven cytogenetic characters wich result useful to characterize and differentiate triatomine species.

cytogenetics; Triatoma; Rhodnius; holocentric chromosomes


ABSTRACT

Cytogenetics as a tool for Triatomine species distinction (Hemiptera-Reduviidae)

Ruben Perez1

Yanina Panzera1

Sandra Scafiezzo1

Maria Cristina Mazzella2

Francisco Panzera

Jean Pierre Dujardin3

Ekaterina Scvortzoff1

Facultad de Ciencias, Sección Genética Evolutiva, Montevideo, Uruguay

Facultad de Agronomia, Cátedra de Genética, Montevideo, Uruguay

ORSTOM, Laboratoire de Génetique des Parasites et des Vecteurs, Montpellier, France

Several cytogenetic traits were tested a species diagnostic characters on five triatomine species: Rhodnius pictipes, R. nasutus, R. robustus, Triatoma matogrossensis and T. pseudomaculata. Four of them are described for the first time. The detailed analysis of the meiotic process and the application of C-banding allowed us to identify seven cytogenetic characters wich result useful to characterize and differentiate triatomine species.

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    15 June 2009
  • Date of issue
    Sept 1992
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