PMID- 26753072 OWN - NLM STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE DCOM- 20160112 LR - 20200930 IS - 1993-0771 (Print) IS - 1993-078X (Electronic) IS - 1993-0771 (Linking) VI - 9 IP - 4 DP - 2015 TI - First evidence for (TTAGG)n telomeric sequence and sex chromosome post-reduction in Coleorrhyncha (Insecta, Hemiptera). PG - 523-32 LID - 10.3897/CompCytogen.v9i4.5609 [doi] AB - Telomeric repeats are general and significant structures of eukaryotic chromosomes. However, nothing is known about the molecular structure of telomeres in the enigmatic hemipteran suborder Coleorrhyncha (moss bugs) commonly considered as the sister group to the suborder Heteroptera (true bugs). The true bugs are known to differ from the rest of the Hemiptera in that they display an inverted sequence of sex chromosome divisions in male meiosis, the so-called sex chromosome post-reduction. To date, there has been no information about meiosis in Coleorrhyncha. Here we report a cytogenetic observation of Peloridium pomponorum, a representative of the single extant coleorrhynchan family Peloridiidae, using the standard chromosome staining and fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) with a (TTAGG) n telomeric probe. We show that Peloridium pomponorum displays 2n = 31 (30A + X) in males, the classical insect (TTAGG) n telomere organization and sex chromosome post-reduction during spermatocyte meiosis. The plesiomorphic insect-type (TTAGG) n telomeric sequence is suggested to be preserved in Coleorrhyncha and in a basal heteropteran infraorder Nepomorpha, but absent (lost) in the advanced heteropteran lineages Cimicomorpha and Pentatomomorpha. The telomere structure in other true bug infraorders is currently unknown. We consider here the inverted sequence of sex chromosome divisions as a synapomorphy of the group Coleorrhyncha + Heteroptera. FAU - Kuznetsova, Valentina G AU - Kuznetsova VG AD - Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Universitetskaya nab. 1, St. Petersburg 199034, Russia. FAU - Grozeva, Snejana M AU - Grozeva SM AD - Institute of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Blvd Tsar Osvoboditel 1, Sofia 1000, Bulgaria. FAU - Hartung, Viktor AU - Hartung V AD - Museum fur Naturkunde, Leibniz Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity Science, Invalidenstrasse 43, 10115 Berlin, Germany; Staatliches Museum fur Naturkunde Karlsruhe, Erbprinzenstrasse 13, 76133 Karlsruhe, Germany. FAU - Anokhin, Boris A AU - Anokhin BA AD - Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Universitetskaya nab. 1, St. Petersburg 199034, Russia. LA - eng PT - Journal Article DEP - 20150902 PL - Bulgaria TA - Comp Cytogenet JT - Comparative cytogenetics JID - 101503807 PMC - PMC4698568 OTO - NOTNLM OT - (TTAGG)n telomeric sequence OT - Coleorrhyncha OT - Hemiptera OT - Karyotype OT - Peloridiidae OT - Peloridium pomponorum OT - sex chromosome post-reduction EDAT- 2016/01/12 06:00 MHDA- 2016/01/12 06:01 PMCR- 2015/09/02 CRDT- 2016/01/12 06:00 PHST- 2015/07/07 00:00 [received] PHST- 2015/08/10 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2016/01/12 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2016/01/12 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2016/01/12 06:01 [medline] PHST- 2015/09/02 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - 10.3897/CompCytogen.v9i4.5609 [doi] PST - epublish SO - Comp Cytogenet. 2015 Sep 2;9(4):523-32. doi: 10.3897/CompCytogen.v9i4.5609. eCollection 2015.