Karyotype study in Luzuriaga radicans (Liliales: Luzuriagaceae)
Karyotype study in Luzuriaga radicans (Liliales: Luzuriagaceae)
Authors
Jara Seguel, Pedro
Zuñiga, Cristián
Romero Mieres, Mario
Palma Rojas, Claudio
Von Brand, Elisabeth
Zuñiga, Cristián
Romero Mieres, Mario
Palma Rojas, Claudio
Von Brand, Elisabeth
Authors
Date
2012-02-08
Datos de publicación:
Biologia, Vol. 65, N°5, 813-816, 2010
Keywords
Luzuriaga radicans - Asimetrías cariotípicas
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Abstract
The karyotype of Luzuriaga radicans R. & P. was quantitatively studied, assessing characters such as chromosome morphology and size, satellite location, asymmetry level and bimodality. L. radicans has an asymmetric and bimodal karyotype 2n = 20 with three metacentric pairs, followed by six submetacentric and one subtelocentric chromosome pair. One satellite was observed in the short arm of chromosome pair 6. The total haploid set length was 48.7 μm and the mean chromosome size was 4.87 ± 2.35 μm. Comparing L. radicans with other two species of the genus a high resemblance among their karyotypes was found. © 2010 Versita Warsaw and Springer-Verlag Wien.