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Multiple sex-chromosome system and other karyological characterizations of Pterotrachea hippocampus (Mollusca: Mesogastropoda)

A. FucàE. CatalanoD. ColomberaA. L. AvilaRoberto Vitturi

subject

GeneticsEcologybiologyHeterochromatinZoologyChromosomeKaryotypeSpermatocyteAquatic Sciencebiology.organism_classificationmedicine.anatomical_structurePterotrachea hippocampusmedicinePloidyMesogastropodaMolluscaEcology Evolution Behavior and Systematics

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Two modal diploid numbers of chromosomes were found for Pterotraches hippocampus Philippi (Mollusca: Mesogastropoda) collected from the Gulf of Palermo in 1990: 2n=31 and 32 for males and females, respectively. This, along with other karyological characteristics such as the occurrence of a trivalent configuration at diakinesis and two types of metaphase-II spreads in spermatocytes, supports the notion that a X1X2Y♂/X1X1X2X2♀ sex mechanism operates in the species investigated here. Silver nitrate procedure revealed an intraindividual variation in the Ag-staining pattern occurring in this species. The majority of the chromosome pair displayed terminal and/or interstitial heterochromatic blocks after C-banding.

https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00349365