PMID- 32879706
OWN - NLM
STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE
LR  - 20200928
IS  - 1993-0771 (Print)
IS  - 1993-078X (Electronic)
IS  - 1993-0771 (Linking)
VI  - 14
IP  - 3
DP  - 2020
TI  - Comparative FISH-mapping of TTAGG telomeric sequences to the chromosomes of 
      leafcutter ants (Formicidae, Myrmicinae): is the insect canonical sequence 
      conserved?
PG  - 369-385
LID - 10.3897/CompCytogen.v14i3.52726 [doi]
AB  - Telomeric sequences are conserved across species. The most common sequence 
      reported among insects is (TTAGG)(n), but its universal occurrence is not a 
      consensus because other canonical motifs have been reported. In the present 
      study, we used fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) using telomeric probes 
      with (TTAGG)(6) repeats to describe the telomere composition of leafcutter ants. 
      We performed the molecular cytogenetic characterization of six Acromyrmex Mayr, 
      1865 and one Atta Fabricius, 1804 species (Acromyrmex ambiguus (Emery, 1888), Ac. 
      crassispinus (Forel, 1909), Ac. lundii (Guerin-Meneville, 1838), Ac. nigrosetosus 
      (Forel, 1908), Ac. rugosus (Smith, 1858), Ac. subterraneus subterraneus (Forel, 
      1893), and Atta sexdens (Linnaeus, 1758)) and described it using a 
      karyomorphometric approach on their chromosomes. The diploid chromosome number 2n 
      = 38 was found in all Acromyrmex species, and the karyotypic formulas were as 
      follows: Ac. ambiguus 2K = 14M + 12SM + 8ST + 4A, Ac. crassispinus 2K = 12M + 
      20SM + 4ST + 2A, Ac. lundii 2K = 10M + 14SM + 10ST + 4A, Ac. nigrosetosus 2K = 
      12M + 14SM + 10ST + 2A, and Ac. subterraneus subterraneus 2K = 14M + 18SM + 4ST + 
      2A. The exact karyotypic formula was not established for Ac. rugosus. FISH 
      analyses revealed the telomeric regions in all the chromosomes of the species 
      studied in the present work were marked by the (TTAGG)(6) sequence. These results 
      reinforce the premise that Formicidae presents high homology between their genera 
      for the presence of the canonical sequence (TTAGG)(n).
CI  - Carini Picardi Moraes de Castro, Danon Clemes Cardoso, Ricardo Micolino, Maykon 
      Passos Cristiano.
FAU - de Castro, Carini Picardi Morais
AU  - de Castro CPM
AD  - Departamento de Biodiversidade, Evolucao e Meio Ambiente, Universidade Federal de 
      Ouro Preto (UFOP), MG, Brazil Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto Ouro Preto 
      Brazil.
AD  - Departament de Genetica, Facultat de Biologia, Universitat de Barcelona (UB), 
      Barcelona, Spain Universidade Barcelona Barcelona Spain.
FAU - Cardoso, Danon Clemes
AU  - Cardoso DC
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-2811-2536
AD  - Departamento de Biodiversidade, Evolucao e Meio Ambiente, Universidade Federal de 
      Ouro Preto (UFOP), MG, Brazil Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto Ouro Preto 
      Brazil.
FAU - Micolino, Ricardo
AU  - Micolino R
AD  - Programa de Pos-graduacao em Genetica, Universidade Federal do Parana (UFPR), 
      Curitiba, PR, Brazil Universidade Federal do Parana Curitiba Brazil.
FAU - Cristiano, Maykon Passos
AU  - Cristiano MP
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0001-7850-9155
AD  - Departamento de Biodiversidade, Evolucao e Meio Ambiente, Universidade Federal de 
      Ouro Preto (UFOP), MG, Brazil Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto Ouro Preto 
      Brazil.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20200814
PL  - Bulgaria
TA  - Comp Cytogenet
JT  - Comparative cytogenetics
JID - 101503807
PMC - PMC7442751
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - FISH
OT  - evolution
OT  - insects
OT  - leafcutter ants
OT  - telomere
EDAT- 2020/09/04 06:00
MHDA- 2020/09/04 06:01
PMCR- 2020/08/14
CRDT- 2020/09/04 06:00
PHST- 2020/03/30 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2020/05/30 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2020/09/04 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2020/09/04 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2020/09/04 06:01 [medline]
PHST- 2020/08/14 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - 52726 [pii]
AID - 10.3897/CompCytogen.v14i3.52726 [doi]
PST - epublish
SO  - Comp Cytogenet. 2020 Aug 14;14(3):369-385. doi: 10.3897/CompCytogen.v14i3.52726. 
      eCollection 2020.