Bed bug cytogenetics: karyotype, sex chromosome system, FISH mapping of 18S rDNA, and male meiosis in Cimex lectularius Linnaeus, 1758 (Heteroptera: Cimicidae)

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 30 Dec 2010Publisher:Pensoft PublishersJournal:Comparative Cytogenetics, volume 4, pages 151-160 (issn: 1993-0771, eissn: 1993-078X,

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Authors: Grozeva,Snejana; Kuznetsova,Valentina G.; Anokhin,B;

doi: 10.3897/compcytogen.v4i2.36

Bed bug cytogenetics: karyotype, sex chromosome system, FISH mapping of 18S rDNA, and male meiosis in Cimex lectularius Linnaeus, 1758 (Heteroptera: Cimicidae)

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Bugs (Insecta: Heteroptera) are frequently used as examples of unusual cytogenetic characters, and the family Cimicidae is one of most interest in this respect. We have performed a cytogenetic study of the common bed bug Cimex lectularius Linnaeus, 1758 using both classical (Schiff-Giemsa and AgNO3-staining) and molecular cytogenetic techniques (base-specific DAPI/CMA3 fluorochromes and FISH with an 18S rDNA probe). Males originated from a wild population of C. lectularius were found to have 2n = 26 + X1X2Y, holokinetic chromosomes, 18S rRNA genes located on the X1 and Y chromosomes; achiasmate male meiosis of a collochore type; MI and MII plates nonradial and radial respectively.

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karyotype, FISH with an 18S rDNA probe, multiple sex chromosomes, holokinetic chromosomes, Genetics, achiasmate collochore meiosis, QH426-470, Cimex lectularius

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