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Registro de poliploidia en la almeja dulceacuícola Musculium Argentinum (D'ORBIGNY 1835) (SPHAERIIDAE, VENEROIDA)
La poliploidía es un carácter inusual en moluscos bivalvos. Sin embargo, datos citogenéticos documentados para especies de la subfamilia Sphaeriinae (familia Sphaeriidae) del hemisferio norte muestran números cromosómicos que varían desde 36 hasta ca. 247. La almeja dulceacuícola Musculium argentinum (D'Orbigny 1835) presenta un número cromosómico 2n = ca. 130, lo cual muestra que la poliploidía también estaría presente en esféridos sudamericanos. Estos antecedentes citogenéticos sugieren que Sphaeriinae podría constituir un complejo poliploide maduro.
Comparative karyology of lentic and lotic populations of Diplodon chilensis chilensis (Bivalvia: Hyriidae)
The mean karyotypes of four populations of Diplodon chilensis chilensis (Gray, 1828) (two lentic and two lotic) inhabiting the south of Chile are described and compared. Chromosomes were obtained by squash of cleaving embryos, previously treated with colchicine, fixed in ethanol-acetic acid 3:1 at 4°C, and stained using the Feulgen reaction. The karyotype of the four populations is 2n = 34, with metacentric and submetacentric chromosomes. In the population from the Peu-Peu stream, the centromeric position in two chromosome pairs (3 and 10) differs significantly from that in the corresponding pairs from the other populations. Karyotype findings of this study do not support the proposal that the differences described between lentic and lotic populations of D. ch. chilensis may result from genetic differentiation among populations. This study is an initial contribution to the knowledge of cytogenetic characteristics in Chilean populations of Diplodon chilensis chilensis.