PMID- 15004477
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20040528
LR  - 20171101
IS  - 1424-859X (Electronic)
IS  - 1424-8581 (Linking)
VI  - 103
IP  - 1-2
DP  - 2003
TI  - Chromosome banding and molecular cytogenetic study of two Mediterranean 
      trachinoid fish species (Teleostei: Trachinidae, Uranoscopidae).
PG  - 139-43
AB  - The chromosomes of Echiichthys vipera (Trachinidae) and Uranoscopus scaber 
      (Uranoscopidae) were analyzed by means of various banding methods and 
      fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) with telomeric and major rDNA probes, 
      respectively. The karyotype of E. vipera was composed of 48 acrocentric 
      chromosomes and NOR sites, as revealed by all detection methods, were situated 
      pericentromerically on a single pair of middle-sized chromosomes. Blocks of 
      constitutive heterochromatin were present in the pericentromeric regions of all 
      pairs of chromosomes. The karyotype of U. scaber showed three karyomorphs: 2n = 
      30 (18 m + 12 a/st [m = metacentric, a = acrocentric and st = subtelocentric]), 
      2n = 28 (20 m + 8 a/st), 2n = 27 (21 m + 6 a/st). NORs, as revealed by FISH, were 
      situated pericentromerically on a single pair of middle-sized chromosomes in 
      spite of Ag-positive signals in the centromeres of all pairs of chromosomes. 
      Robertsonian fusions were hypothesized for observed variation due to invariable 
      number of chromosome arms FN = 48.
CI  - Copyright 2003 S. Karger AG, Basel
FAU - Caputo, V
AU  - Caputo V
AD  - Istituto di Biologia e Genetica, Universita Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona, 
      Italy. vcaputo@unian.it
FAU - Colomba, M
AU  - Colomba M
FAU - Nisi Cerioni, P
AU  - Nisi Cerioni P
FAU - Vitturi, R
AU  - Vitturi R
FAU - Giovannotti, M
AU  - Giovannotti M
FAU - Olmo, E
AU  - Olmo E
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
PL  - Switzerland
TA  - Cytogenet Genome Res
JT  - Cytogenetic and genome research
JID - 101142708
RN  - 0 (Heterochromatin)
SB  - IM
MH  - Animals
MH  - Chromosome Banding
MH  - *Chromosomes/ultrastructure
MH  - Cytogenetic Analysis
MH  - Heterochromatin/classification
MH  - In Situ Hybridization, Fluorescence
MH  - Karyotyping
MH  - Mediterranean Sea
MH  - Metaphase
MH  - Nucleolus Organizer Region
MH  - Perciformes/*genetics
EDAT- 2004/03/09 05:00
MHDA- 2004/05/29 05:00
CRDT- 2004/03/09 05:00
PHST- 2003/05/22 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2003/07/03 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2004/03/09 05:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2004/05/29 05:00 [medline]
PHST- 2004/03/09 05:00 [entrez]
AID - 76302 [pii]
AID - 10.1159/000076302 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Cytogenet Genome Res. 2003;103(1-2):139-43. doi: 10.1159/000076302.