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Issue: Vol. 4938 No. 1: 25 Feb. 2021
Type: Article
Published: 2021-02-25
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4938.1.5
Page range: 101–116
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Trends of karyotype evolution in the Neotropical long-legged crickets Phalangopsidae (Orthoptera, Grylloidea)

Programa de Pós-Graduação em Biologia Animal e Programa de Pós-Graduação em Entomologia, Universidade Federal de Pelotas, Departamento de Ecologia, Zoologia e Genética, Instituto de Biologia, Campus Universitário Capão do Leão s/n, Capão do Leão, RS, Brazil
Coordenação de Biodiversidade, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Av. André Araújo, 2936, 69060-001, Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil.
Programa de Pós-Graduação em Biologia Animal e Programa de Pós-Graduação em Entomologia, Universidade Federal de Pelotas, Departamento de Ecologia, Zoologia e Genética, Instituto de Biologia, Campus Universitário Capão do Leão s/n, Capão do Leão, RS, Brazil
Programa de Pós-Graduação em Biologia Neotropical, Universidade Federal da Integração Latino-Americana, Av. Tarquínio Joslin dos Santos, nº. 1.000, Polo Universitário, CEP 85.870-901, Foz do Iguaçu, PR, Brasil
Instituto de Ciências Biológicas e da Saúde, Universidade Federal de Viçosa, Campus Rio Paranaíba, Rodovia MG 230, KM 7, s/n, 38810-000, Rio Paranaíba, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, Faculdade de Biociências, Departamento de Biodiversidade e Ecologia, Laboratório de Entomologia. Av. Ipiranga, 6681, Partenon, Porto Alegre/RS, CEP: 90619-900 Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil
Programa de Pós-Graduação em Biologia Animal e Programa de Pós-Graduação em Entomologia, Universidade Federal de Pelotas, Departamento de Ecologia, Zoologia e Genética, Instituto de Biologia, Campus Universitário Capão do Leão s/n, Capão do Leão, RS, Brazil
Orthoptera Insecta chromosome cytogenetics sex-determining system

Abstract

Phalangopsids are a diverse group of crickets found in all tropical and subtropical regions, and includes 1044 valid species. Up to now, only 22 species were studied cytologically, with the chromosome number ranging from 2n = 11 to 2n = 21. In this paper we studied the chromosomes of 12 phalangopsid species from different Brazilian biomes (eight of them reported for the first time), and we traced some trends on chromosomal derivation in this group, based on chromosome morphology and fundamental number. We found that in the phalangopsid species the karyotype concentrates a large amount of metacentric chromosomes, the result of successive centric fusions over evolutionary time. Moreover, pericentric inversions and translocations have been also important in the chromosomal derivation of these crickets.

 

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