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Revista de Biología Tropical
On-line version ISSN 0034-7744Print version ISSN 0034-7744
Abstract
ARIAS-RODRIGUEZ, Lenin; PARAMO-DELGADILLO, Salomón and DURAN-GONZALEZ, Alicia de la Luz. Caraterización citogenética del pez tropical de agua dulce Parachromis managuensis (Pisces:Cichlidae). Rev. biol. trop [online]. 2006, vol.54, n.1, pp.35-42. ISSN 0034-7744.
Citogenetic characterization of the tropical freshwater fish Parachromis managuensis (Pisces: Cichlidae). To describe the cytogenetics of the jaguar cichlid fish Parachromis managuensis, we collected eight males and 13 females in Villahermosa, Tabasco, México. The specimens were processed with standard cytogenetic techniques (slightly modified), and high quality fields of chromosomes in mitosis and meiosis were obtained; 14 of these fields were analyzed by meristics and statistics methods. The specimens presented a diploid modal number of 2n=48 chromosomes, which is similar to the number reported for others Central American cichlids; five pairs were submetacentric-metacentrics(biarmed)and 19 were subtelocentric-telocentric (uni-armed),giving a fundamental number (NF)of 58.The haploid number was confirmed by counting meiotic fields in metaphase I. There was not evidence of heteromorphism: sexual chromosomes were not identifiable. Rev. Biol. Trop. 54 (1): 35-42. Epub 2006 Mar 31.
Keywords : Parachromis managuensis; cytogenetics; chromosomes; mojarra; cichlid.