Diploid F1 hybrids between Rana ridibunda from Adriatic SW Yugoslavia and Polish R. lessonae, and between Polish R. ridibunda and an unnamed species from SW Yugoslavia are shown by electrophoresis and examination of lampbrush chromosomes to contain both parental genomes in their diploid oocytes I. In contrast, central European R. ridibunda genomes in diploid hybrids, whether Fls or from natural hemiclonal lineages, induce
A combined chromosome and C-heterochromatin polymorphism in pair 12 in the complement of the newt species, T. italicus is described. The C-heterochromatin polymorphism is presumably due to a loss in the proximal C-band, whereas the chromosomal polymorphism has its origin in two different independent pericentric inversions both including the centromere and the proximal C-band of chromosome 12. The double-inversion polymorphism has a wide distribution over the range and follows a clear bipolarity between a northern area where the karyotype is homomorphic for the standard type of pair 12 (ST/ST) and an opposite area where the ST type is completely replaced by variant M1 and M2 metacentric chromosomes 12. Various karyophylogenies are possible, but the simplest and the most probable presumes an ancestral karyotype of ST/ST and a mechanism of gradual replacement of the heterobrachial chromosome ST by two independent pericentric inversions. The present data are discussed in relation to existing theories on karyological evolution of Urodeles and the functional significance of telocentric chromosomes suggested by Sessions et al. (1982).
A chromosomal variation, changing shape and C-banding pattern of chromosome XII of Triturus italicus was detected among the offspring of two F1 hybrid families of T. italicus female x T. vulgaris meridionalis male. In both families a number of individuals appeared to have a metacentric instead of the expected subtelocentric chromosome XII of T. italicus.--Investigations in three well separated localities in the range of the species showed the polymorphism to have a wide distribution and to be part of a complex pattern involving at least two inversions and (presumably) deficiencies of large C-bands. At meiosis, the shape of bivalent XII, and the location and frequency of chiasmata in the bivalent varied with the karyomorph involved. It is suggested that large rearrangements may still play an important role in the karyological evolution of Triturus.
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