PMID- 29730744 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20180926 LR - 20181114 IS - 1573-6857 (Electronic) IS - 0016-6707 (Linking) VI - 146 IP - 3 DP - 2018 Jun TI - Presence of the canonical TTAGG insect telomeric repeat in the Tenthredinidae (Symphyta) suggests its ancestral nature in the order Hymenoptera. PG - 341-344 LID - 10.1007/s10709-018-0019-x [doi] AB - Telomeric repeats in two members of the sawfly family Tenthredinidae (Hymenoptera), namely, Tenthredo omissa (Forster, 1844) and Taxonus agrorum (Fallen, 1808) (both have n = 10), were studied using fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH). Chromosomes of both species were demonstrated to contain the canonical TTAGG insect telomeric repeat, which constitutes the first report of the (TTAGG)(n) telomeric motif for the Tenthredinidae as well as for the clade Eusymphyta and the suborder Symphyta in general. Taken together with the presence of this repeat in many other Holometabola as well as in the hymenopteran families Formicidae and Apidae from the suborder Apocrita, these results collectively suggest the ancestral nature of the (TTAGG)(n) telomeric motif in the Hymenoptera as well as its subsequent loss within the clade Unicalcarida and independent reappearance in ants and bees. If this is true, the loss of the TTAGG repeat can be considered as a synapomorphy of the corresponding clade. FAU - Gokhman, Vladimir E AU - Gokhman VE AUID- ORCID: 0000-0001-9909-7559 AD - Botanical Garden, Moscow State University, Moscow, 119234, Russia. vegokhman@hotmail.com. FAU - Kuznetsova, Valentina G AU - Kuznetsova VG AD - Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, 199034, Russia. LA - eng GR - 18-04-00611/Russian Foundation for Basic Research/ GR - 14-14-00541/Russian Science Foundation/ PT - Journal Article DEP - 20180505 PL - Netherlands TA - Genetica JT - Genetica JID - 0370740 RN - 0 (Genetic Markers) SB - IM MH - Animals MH - Chromosomes, Insect MH - *Evolution, Molecular MH - Female MH - *Genetic Markers MH - Hymenoptera/classification/*genetics MH - In Situ Hybridization, Fluorescence MH - *Nucleotide Motifs MH - *Repetitive Sequences, Nucleic Acid MH - Telomere/*genetics OTO - NOTNLM OT - FISH OT - Hymenoptera OT - Symphyta OT - TTAGG OT - Telomeres OT - Tenthredinidae EDAT- 2018/05/08 06:00 MHDA- 2018/09/27 06:00 CRDT- 2018/05/07 06:00 PHST- 2018/02/08 00:00 [received] PHST- 2018/04/23 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2018/05/08 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2018/09/27 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2018/05/07 06:00 [entrez] AID - 10.1007/s10709-018-0019-x [pii] AID - 10.1007/s10709-018-0019-x [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Genetica. 2018 Jun;146(3):341-344. doi: 10.1007/s10709-018-0019-x. Epub 2018 May 5.