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- Title
Karyotype of three Lonchophylla species (Chiroptera, Phyllostomidae) from Southeastern Brazil.
- Authors
Almeida, Brunna; Morim Novaes, Roberto Leonan; Aguieiras, Marcia; de França Souza, Renan; Lustosa Esbérard, Carlos Eduardo; Geise, Lena
- Abstract
Lonchophylla Thomas, 1903 is a Neotropical bat genus that comprises 12 species, with little cytogenetic information available. Here we present the description of the karyotype of three species collected in Southeastern Brazil. Lonchophylla bokermanni Sazima, Vizotto & Taddei, 1978, Lonchophylla dekeyseri Taddei, Vizotto & Sazima, 1983, and Lonchophylla peracchii Dias, Moratelli & Esberard, 2013 showed the same diploid number 2n = 28 and the same autosomal fundamental number FNa = 50, in both L. bokermanni and L. peracchii. We observed that the karyotypes were also cytogenetically similar when we compared the studied species with other species within the same genus. It is therefore not possible to differentiate the species using only karyotypes with conventional staining. However, this information increases the knowledge of the genus and can be one more important character for a better phylogenetic comprehension of this taxon.
- Subjects
BRAZIL; PHYLLOSTOMIDAE; BATS; GENETICS; SPECIES hybridization
- Publication
Comparative Cytogenetics, 2016, Vol 10, Issue 1, p109
- ISSN
1993-0771
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3897/CompCytogen.v10i1.6646