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- Title
Meiotic characterization and sex determination system of neotropical primates: bolivian squirrel monkey Saimiri boliviensis (primates: cebidae).
- Authors
Steinberg, Eliana R.; Nieves, Mariela; Mudry, Marta D.
- Abstract
The chromosomal sex determination system differs among platyrrhine monkeys more than any other group of primates. Although a number of studies have investigated mitotic chromosomes across platyrrhine species, the meiotic chromosomes of many genera have not yet been described. The goal of this study was to characterize the sex determination system of Saimiri boliviensis. We described for the first time the meiotic cycle, confirming the sexual system in germ cells from testicular biopsies of four adult male S. boliviensis. All specimens were weighed and testicular volume was measured. We observed 22 bivalents corresponding to 2N = 44, and a “human-like” XY bivalent was found in diakinesis/metaphase I. In addition, mitotic studies from blood samples of both sexes were performed and G- and C-banding patterns agreed with previously reported karylogy of S. boliviensis boliviensis. Further meiotic studies should be performed in New World primates based on the great value of those studies for systematic evolutionary biology and conservation programs. Am. J. Primatol. 69:1236–1241, 2007. © 2007 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
- Subjects
GENETIC sex determination; SQUIRREL monkeys; PRIMATES; CEBIDAE; NEW World monkeys; BIOLOGICAL evolution; CYTOGENETICISTS; BIOLOGY
- Publication
American Journal of Primatology, 2007, Vol 69, Issue 11, p1236
- ISSN
0275-2565
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/ajp.20430