PMID- 26667930 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20170327 LR - 20181113 IS - 1432-0886 (Electronic) IS - 0009-5915 (Linking) VI - 125 IP - 4 DP - 2016 Sep TI - The 14/15 association as a paradigmatic example of tracing karyotype evolution in New World monkeys. PG - 747-56 LID - 10.1007/s00412-015-0565-2 [doi] AB - Fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH), especially chromosome painting, has been extensively exploited in the phylogenetic reconstruction of primate evolution. Although chromosome painting is a key method to map translocations, it is not effective in detecting chromosome inversions, which may be up to four times more frequent than other chromosomal rearrangements. BAC-FISH instead can economically delineate marker order and reveal intrachromosomal rearrangements. However, up to now, BAC-FISH was rarely used to study the chromosomes of New World monkeys partly due to technical difficulties. In this paper, we used BAC-FISH to disentangle the complex evolutionary history of the ancestral 14/15 association in NWMs, beginning from the squirrel monkey (Saimiri boliviensis). To improve the hybridization efficiency of BAC-FISH in NWMs, we "translated" the human BACs into Callithrix jacchus (CJA) BACs, which yielded much higher hybridization efficiencies on other NWM species than human BACs. Our results disclosed 14 synteny blocks in squirrel monkeys, 7 more than with chromosome painting. We then applied a subset of CJA BACs on six other NWM species. The comparison of the hybridization pattern of these species contained phylogenetic information to discriminate evolutionary relationships. Notably Aotus was found to share an inversion with Callithrix, thus definitely assigning the genus Aotus to Cebidae. The present study can be seen as a paradigmatic approach to investigate the phylogenetics of NWMs by molecular cytogenetics. FAU - Capozzi, Oronzo AU - Capozzi O AD - Department of Biology, University of Bari, Bari, Italy. FAU - Archidiacono, Nicoletta AU - Archidiacono N AD - Department of Biology, University of Bari, Bari, Italy. FAU - Lorusso, Nicola AU - Lorusso N AD - Department of Biology, University of Bari, Bari, Italy. FAU - Stanyon, Roscoe AU - Stanyon R AD - Department of Biology, University of Florence, Florence, Italy. roscoe.stanyon@unifi.it. FAU - Rocchi, Mariano AU - Rocchi M AD - Department of Biology, University of Bari, Bari, Italy. rocchi@biologia.uniba.it. LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't DEP - 20151214 PL - Austria TA - Chromosoma JT - Chromosoma JID - 2985138R SB - IM MH - Animals MH - Atelinae MH - Biological Evolution MH - Cell Line MH - Chromosome Inversion/*genetics MH - Chromosome Painting/*methods MH - Chromosomes, Artificial, Bacterial/*genetics MH - Evolution, Molecular MH - Humans MH - Karyotype MH - Phylogeny MH - Pitheciidae MH - Synteny/*genetics MH - Translocation, Genetic/*genetics OTO - NOTNLM OT - BAC-FISH OT - BLAT OT - Disrupted synteny OT - Molecular cytogenetics OT - Phylogenomics OT - Rapid chromosome evolution EDAT- 2015/12/17 06:00 MHDA- 2017/03/28 06:00 CRDT- 2015/12/16 06:00 PHST- 2015/09/04 00:00 [received] PHST- 2015/11/30 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2015/11/24 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2015/12/16 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2015/12/17 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2017/03/28 06:00 [medline] AID - 10.1007/s00412-015-0565-2 [pii] AID - 10.1007/s00412-015-0565-2 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Chromosoma. 2016 Sep;125(4):747-56. doi: 10.1007/s00412-015-0565-2. Epub 2015 Dec 14.