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
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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Date of issue
Sept 1992
