A population analysis of Robertsonian and Ag-NOR polymorphisms in brown trout (Salmo trutta)
1994
Castro, J. (Santiago Univ., Lugo (Spain). Dept. de Biologia Fundamental. Area de Genetica) | Rodriguez, S. | Arias, J. | Sanchez, L. | Martinez, P.
An analysis of Robertsonian polymorphism and variation in the number of active NORs has been carried out in several populations of brown trout (Salmo trutta) from Northwestern Spain. The karyotype of this species appears to be soundly established, and essentially no variation has been found in chromosome number. Interindividual and interpopulation variation in arm number was detected, with figures ranging between l00 and 102 among individuals, and between 100.10 and 100.80 among populations. This variation in arm number is solely attributable to the polymorphism of the short arm of the main NOR-bearing pair 11, which can appear from acrocentric to metacentric in different individuals. Most populations analyzed showed the standard distribution of active NORs previously observed in this species. The Mino drainage basin, and specially the Chamoso population, showed a multichromosomal distribution of active NORs, with several new locations, always telomeric. In most cases no concordance was observed between previously detected rDNA sites in S. trutta and the new Ag-NOR locations. This fact suggests a transposition mechanism rather than an activation of silent rDNA sites to explain this multichromosomal NOR pattern.
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