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Title: 
Cytogenetic analysis in the spermatogenesis of Triatoma melanosoma (Reduviidae; Heteroptera)
Author(s): 
Institution: 
Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP)
ISSN: 
1676-5680
Abstract: 
Triatomines are of great concern in public health because they are vectors of Chagas' disease. This study presents an analysis of the species Triatoma melanosoma. The cytogenetic characteristics of triatomines include holocentric chromosomes, post-reductional meiosis in the sex chromosomes and nucleolar fragmentation in the meiotic cycle. The methodology utilized consisted of the techniques of lacto-acetic orcein staining and silver ion impregnation. The organs analyzed were adult testicles. The results enabled to classify the chromosomes by number and size, being three large, eight medium and one small heterochromosome. The three largest chromosomes and the heterochromosomes showed heteropyknotic chromatin in meiosis. The heterochromosomes in 8.05% of the cells in metaphase I behaved as pseudobivalents, contrasting with 91.95% of the cells with individualized sex chromosomes, confirming the achiasmatic nature of these chromosomes. However, the pseudobivalents occurred prominently in metaphase II (78.38%), this fact probably is related to the post-reductional nature of the sex chromosomes. The nucleolus in T. melanosoma persisted until the diplotene phase after which it began to fragment. Nucleolar corpuscles were observed in metaphases I and II and during anaphases I and II, these characteristics being related to the phenomenon of nucleolar persistence. In the initial spermatids, peripheral silver ion impregnation occurred, which could be analogous to the pre-nucleolar corpuscles observed after fragmentation. Thus, this study extends our knowledge of the characteristics of triatomines, in particular, heteropyknotic degree, kinetic activity, formation of sex chromosome achiasmatic pseudobivalency, confirmation of the fragmentation phenomenon, and post-meiotic nucleolar reactivation. ©FUNPEC-RP.
Issue Date: 
30-Jul-2008
Citation: 
Genetics and Molecular Research, v. 7, n. 2, p. 326-335, 2008.
Time Duration: 
326-335
Keywords: 
  • Cytogenetics
  • Holocentric chromosomes
  • Meiosis
  • Nucleolus
  • Spermatogenesis
  • Triatomines
  • silver
  • cell kinetics
  • cell structure
  • chromosome number
  • chromosome size
  • cytogenetics
  • male
  • meiosis
  • metaphase
  • nonhuman
  • nucleolus
  • parasite vector
  • sex chromosome
  • spermatid
  • spermatogenesis
  • Triatoma
  • Triatoma melanosoma
  • triatomine
  • Animals
  • Chromosomes
  • Cytogenetic Analysis
  • Male
  • Oxazines
  • Sex Chromosomes
  • Testis
  • Heteroptera
  • Reduviidae
Source: 
http://dx.doi.org/10.4238/vol7-2gmr411
URI: 
Access Rights: 
Acesso aberto
Type: 
outro
Source:
http://repositorio.unesp.br/handle/11449/70496
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