Cytogenetic characteristics of species of the Chironomus genus (Diptera, Chironomidae) from Lake Łuknajno Biosphere Reserve (northwest Poland)

Izabela Jabłońska-Barna; Paraskeva Michailova

doi:10.2478/v10009-009-0023-7

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Cytogenetic characteristics of species of the Chironomus genus (Diptera, Chironomidae) from Lake Łuknajno Biosphere Reserve (northwest Poland)

Oceanological and Hydrobiological Studies

Volume 38 (2009): Issue 2 (June 2009)

By: Izabela Jabłońska-Barna and Paraskeva Michailova

Open Access

|Jun 2009

Abstract

The cytotaxonomic characteristics of two species of the Chironomus genus from Lake Łuknajno (northwest Poland) were determined: Chironomus nuditarsis Strenzke, 1959 with the chromosome arm combinations of AB, CD, EF, and G (the "thummi" cytocomplex), and Camptochironomus tentans (Fabricius, 1805) with the chromosome arm combinations of AB, CF, DE, and G. A heterozygous inversion in arm F of the Chironomus nuditarsis chromosomes was detected. The polymorphism of Camptochironomus tentans as a homozygous inversion in arms A and E and a heterozygous inversion in arm F were revealed.

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