Study of karyotype evolution of Ancistrus genus (Siluriformes: Loricariidae) of streams from Cuiabá region/MT

Author(s)

Flávia Marcorin de Oliveira

• Document type: Master's Dissertation
• Press: Rio Claro. 2016-07-04.
• Institution: Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp). Instituto de Biociências. Rio Claro
• Defense date: 2016-06-16
• Advisor: Patricia Pasquali Parise Maltempi; Sandra Mariotto

Abstract

The Loricariidae family is one of the most diversified of the Siluriformes order, with species distributed in seven subfamilies: Hypoptopomatinae, Loricariinae, Hypostominae, Neoplecostominae, Lithogeninae, Delturinae and Ancistrinae. The species of the genus Ancistrus Kner, 1854, belong to the subfamily Ancistrinae, have shown great karyotype variation, and interesting features of the cytogenetic point of view as the presence of sex chromosomes and chromosome polymorphisms. Thus the aim of this study was to characterize the chromosomes of four species of Ancistrus genus (Ancistrus sp. 1 "cupim", Ancistrus sp. 2 "cupim", Ancistrus sp. "mutuca" and Ancistrus sp. "soberbo") belonging to Paraguay basin using techniques of classical and molecular cytogenetics to better understand the karyotype evolution of these species. The species showed diploid number ranging from 2n = 42 to 2n = 54, NOR located in pericentomeric and terminal regions, and these regions size heteromorphism (NOR) in one of the homologous in the four species. The C-banding showed the presence of few heterochromatin with the exception of species Ancistrus sp. 2 "cupim" and Ancistrus sp. "soberbo" that had two large blocks of heterochromatin in a pair of chromosomes in both males and females. An exemplary female of the species Ancistrus sp. 1 "cupim" also presented a large block of heterochromatin in one of the pair of 7 homologous, and these results indicating probable relationship between these heterochromatin blocks and differentiation of sex chromosomes. The results obtained by FISH technique using probes 18S rDNA and 5S showed that the 18S rDNA is located in the same region of NOR, the 5S rDNA is distributed in four and five chromosome pairs and double FISH showed colocalization of these genes. However of Ancistrus species sp. 2 "cupim" and Ancistrus sp. "soberbo" showed variation in results with rDNA markings in heterochromatin blocks. The use of telomeric probe showed markings on the telomeres of the chromosomes of four species studied and pericentromeric marking on a pair of chromosomes of the species Ancistrus sp. 2 "cupim". Our results indicate possible chromosomal rearrangements type fusion centric, contributing to the reduction of the diploid number and pericentric inversions and paracentric resulting in the location of rDNA sites. (AU)

• FAPESP's process: 15/05993-3 - Study of karyotype evolution of species in the genus Ancistrus (Siluriformes: Loricariidae) streams from region Cuiabá/MT
• Grantee: Flávia Marcorin de Oliveira
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master