Reproductive modes, ploidy distribution, and supernumerary chromosome frequencies of the flatworm Polycelis nigra (Platyhelminthes: Tricladida)

Hydrobiologia

Volumn 383, Issue 1-3, 1998, Pages 277-285

  Beukeboom, Leo W ^a,b   Sharbel, Timothy F ^a   Michiels, Nicolaas K ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR ORNITHOLOGY   (Germany)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Flatworm; Polycelis; Polyploidy; Pseudogamous parthenogenesis; Supernumerary chromosome; Tricladida

Indexed keywords

POLYCELIS NIGRA;

EID: 0032447370     PISSN: 00188158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/a:1003460132521     Document Type: Article

References (58)

1. Angus, R. A. & R. J. Schultz, 1979. Clonal diversity in the unisexual fish Poeciliopsis monacha-lucida: a tissue graft analysis. Evolution 33: 27-40.
2. Benazzi, M., 1952. Sulla possibilità di reproduzione sessuata senza accoppiamento in Tricladi di acqua dolce. Atti Soc. tose. Sci. nat. Ser. B 59: 107-110.
3. Benazzi, M., 1963. Genetics of reproductive mechanisms and chromosome behavior in some fresh-water triclads. In E. C. Dougherty (ed.), The Lower Metazoa, Comparative Biology and Phylogeny n. 30. University of California Press, Berkeley: 405-422.
4. Benazzi, M. & G. Benazzi Lentati, 1976. Platyhelminthes. In: B. John, (ed.), Animal Cytogenetics, Gebrüder Borntraeger, Berlin-Stuttgart, 1: 1-77.
5. Benazzi Lentati, G., 1970. Gametogenesis and egg fertilization in planarians. Int. Rev. Cyto. 27: 101-179.
6. Beukeboom, L. W., 1994. Bewildering Bs: An impression of the 1st B-Chromosome Conference. Heredity 73: 328-336.
7. Beukeboom, L. W., M. Seif, T. Mettenmeyer, A. B. Plowman & N. K. Michiels, 1996a. Paternal inheritance of B chromosomes in a parthenogenetic hermaphrodite. Heredity 77: 646-654.
8. Beukeboom, L. W., R. P. Weinzierl, K. M. Reed & N. K. Michiels, 1996b. Distribution and origin of chromosomal races in the freshwather planarian Dugesia polychroa (Turbellaria: Tricladida). Hereditas 124: 7-15.
9. Beukeboom, L. W., M. Seif, A. B. Plowman, F. De Ridder & N. K. Michiels, 1998. Phenotypic fitness effects of B chromosomes in the pseudogamous parthenogenetic planarian Polycelis nigra. Heredity 80: 594-603.
10. Biersma, R. & H. J. W. Wijsman, 1981. Studies on the speciation of the European freshwater planarians Polycelis nigra and Polycelis tenuis based on the analysis of enzyme variation by means of iso-electric focusing. Hydrobiologia 84: 79-86.
11. Camacho, J. P. M., J. Cabrero, M. D. López-León & M. W. Shaw, 1996. Evolution of a near-neutral B chromosome. Chromosomes Today 12: 301-318.
12. Canovai, R., 1989. Distribuzione dei tricladi dulcacquicoli dei Monti Pisani con riferimento ai biotipi cariologici delle diverse specie. Atti Soc. tosc. Sci. nat., Mem., Ser. B 96: 107-120.
13. Canovai, R., A. Esposito & L. Galleni, 1985. Analisi citotassonomica dei Tricladi di un torrente nei Monti Pisani. Soc. tosc. Sci. nat., Mem., Ser. B 92: 271-273.
14. Canovai, R. & L. Galleni, 1988. I Tricladi dulciacquicoli dei Monti Pisani e della pianura circostante. Boll. Mus. St. Nat. Lunigiana 6-7: 145-149.
15. Dahm, A. G., 1958. Taxonomy and Ecology of Five Species Groups in the Family Planariidae (Turbellaria Tricladida Paludicola). Nya Litografen Malmö, 241 pp.
16. Dawley, R. M & J. P. Bogart (eds), 1989. Evolution and Ecology of Asexual Vertebrates. New York State Museum, Albany, N.Y. Bull 466.
17. den Hartog, C., 1962. De Nederlandse platwormen (Tricladida). Wetenschappelijke Mededelingen K.N.N.V., 42: 1-40.
18. Densmore, L. D., C. C. Montz, J. W. Wright & W. M. Brown, 1989. Mitochondrial- DNA analyses and the origin and relative age of parthenogenetic lizards (genus Cnemidophorus). IV. Nine sexlineatus-group unisexuals. Evolution 43: 969-983.
19. De Vries, E. J., J. Baguñà & I. R. Ball, 1984. Chromosomal polymorphism in planarians (Turbellaria, Tricladida) and the plate tectonics of the western Mediterranean. Genetica 62: 187-191.
20. Dutrilleux, B. & P. Lenicque, 1971. Analyse du caryotype de cinq espèces de planaires par la méthode du choc hypotonique. Acta zool. 52: 241-248.
21. Green, D. M., 1990. Muller's Ratchet and the evolution of supernumerary chromosomes. Genome 33: 818-824.
22. Hansen-Melander, E., Y. Melander & T. B. Reynoldson, 1954. A new species of freshwater triclad belonging to the genus Polycelis. Nature 173: 354-355.
23. Hedges, S. B., Bogart, J. P. & L. R. Maxson, 1992. Ancestry of unisexual salamanders. Nature 356: 708-710.
24. Heitkamp, U., 1979. Abundanzdynamik und Reproduktionsphasen limnophiler Tricladen (Turbellaria) aus stehenden Kleingewässern. Hydrobiologia 65: 49-57.
25. Hoffmann, J. A., 1964. Faune des Triclades Paludicoles du Grand-Duché de Luxembourg. Archives Institut Grand Ducal de Luxembourg, Section des Sciences Naturelles, Physiques et Mathématiques, Nouvelle Série 30: 181-261.
26. Jones, R. N. & H. Rees, 1982. B Chromosomes. Academic Press, London.
27. Le Moigne, A., 1962. Etude de formules chromosomiques de quelques Polycelis (Turbellariés Triclades) de la région parisienne. Bull. Soc. zool. 87: 259-270.
28. Lepori, N. G., 1949. Ricerche sulla ovogenesi e sulla fecondazione nella planaria Polycelis nigra Ehrenberg con particolare riguardo all'ufficio del nucleo spermatico. Caryologia 1: 280-295.
29. Lepori, N. G., 1950. Il ciclo cromosomico, con poliploidia, endomitosi e ginogenesi, in popolazioni italiane di Polycelis nigra Ehrenberg. Caryologia 2: 301-324.
30. Lepori, N. G., 1954a. Nuova mutazione genomica in Polycelis nigra Ehrenberg. Caryologia 6: 90-102.
31. Lepori, N. G., 1954b. Prime ricerche cariologiche su alcune popolationi europee di Polycelis tenuis Jijma. Caryologia 6: 103-115.
32. Lepori, N. G., 1955. La differenziazione specifica di Polycelis nigra Ehrenberg e Polycelis tenuis Iijima (Tricladida, Paludicola) e la loro distribuzione geografica in Europa. Atti Soc. tosc. Sci. Nat. Ser. B 62: 50-71.
33. Lepori, N. G. & M. Pala, 1982. Fissioning in planarians. 1. Karyological analysis of fissiparous strains of Dugesia gonocephala S.L. (Turbellaria Tricladida) collected in Sardinia, in order to determine the factors responsible for fissioning. Monit. zool. ital. 16: 105-131.
34. Melander, Y., 1950. Accessory chromosomes in animals, especially in Polycelis tenuis. Hereditas 36: 19-38.
35. Melander, Y., 1963. Cytogenetic aspects of embryogenesis in Paludicola Tricladida. Hereditas 49: 119-166.
36. Menken, S.B., E. Smit & H. J. C. M. den Nijs, 1995. Genetical population structure in plants: gene flow between diploid sexual and triploid asexual dandelions (Taraxacum section Ruderalia). Evolution 49: 1108-1118.
37. Moore, W. S. & A. B. Eisenbrey, 1979. The population structure of an asexual vertebrate, Poeciliopsis 2 monacha-lucida (Pisces: Poecliidae). Evolution 33: 563-578.
38. Ó Foighil, D. & M. J. Smith, 1995. Evolution of asexuality in the cosmopolitan marine clam Lasaea. Evolution 49: 140-150.
39. Oki, I., S. Tamura, T. Yamayoshi & M. Kawakatsu, 1981. Karyological and taxonomic studies of Dugesia japonica Kawakatsu in the Far East. Hydrobiologia 84: 53-68.
40. Pattee, E. & N. Gourbault, 1981. Turbellaries triclades paludicoles. Bull. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 50: 279-304.
41. Redi, C. A., S. Garagna & C. Pellicciari, 1982. Chromosome preparation from planarian blastemas: A procedure suitable for cytogenetic and cytochemical studies. Stain Technology 57: 190-192.
42. Reed, K. M. & J. H. Werren, 1995. Induction of paternal genome loss by the Paternal-Sex-Ratio Chromosome and cytoplasmic incompatibility bateria (Wolbachia): a comparative study of early embryonic events. Mol. Reprod. Devel. 40: 408-415.
43. Reynoldson, T. B., 1978. A key to British species of freshwater Triclads. Freshwat. Biol. 23, 32 pp.
44. Ribas, M., M. Pala, R. A. Vacca, M. Y. Riutort & J. Baguña, 1988. Taxonomic status of the Western Mediterranean asexual populations of the Dugesia (D) gonocephala group. Morphological, karyological and biochemical data. Fortschr. Zool. 36: 129-137.
45. Richards, A. J., 1973. The origin of Taraxacum agamospecies. Bot. J. Linn. Soc. 66: 189-211.
46. Ryan, S. L., G. B. Saul & G. W. Conner, 1985. Aberrant segregation of R-locus genes in male progeny from incompatible crosses in Mormoniella stocks derived from aberrant segregation following incompatible crosses. J. Hered. 76: 21-26.
47. Ryan, S. L., G. B. Saul & G. W. Conner, 1987. Separation of factors containing R- locus genes in Mormoniella stocks derived from aberrant segregation following incompatible crosses. J. Hered. 78: 273-275.
48. Schleip, W., 1907. Die Samenreifung bei den Planarien. Zool. Jb. Anat. Ontog. Tiere 24: 129-174.
49. Sharbel, T. F., L. P. Pijnacker & L.W. Beukeboom, 1998. Multiple supernumerary chromosomes in the pseudogamous parthenogenetic flatworm, Polycelis nigra: lineage markers or remnants of genetic leakage? Genome 40: 850-856.
50. Spolsky, C. M., C. A. Phillips & T. Uzzell, 1992. Antiquity of clonal salamander lineages revealed by mitochondrial DNA. Nature 356: 706-708.
51. Steenbergen, H. A., 1993. Macrofauna-atlas van Noord-Hholland: Verspreidingskaarten en Responsies op Milieufactoren van Ongewervelde Waterdieren. Provincie Noord-Holland, Dienst Ruimte en Groen. Haarlem, The Netherlands, 651 pp.
52. Stenseth, N. C., L. R. Kirkendall & N. Moran, 1985. On the evolution of pseudogamy. Evolution 39: 294-307.
53. Suomalainen, E., A. Saura & J. Lokki, 1987. Cytology and evolution in parthenogenesis. CRC Press, Inc. Boca Raton, Florida, 216 pp.
54. Turgeon, J. & P. D. N. Hebert, 1994. Evolutionary interactions between sexual and all-female taxa of Cyprinotus (Ostracoda: Cypndidae). Evolution 48: 1855-1865.
55. Turner, B. J., J. S. Balsano, P. J. Monaco & E. M. Rasch, 1983. Clonal diversity and evolutionary dynamics in a diploid-triploid breeding complex of unisexual fishes (Poecilia). Evolution 37: 798-809.
56. Turner, B. J., B-L. H. Brett, E. M. Rasch & J. S. Balsano, 1980. Evolutionary genetics of a gynogenetic fish, Poecilia formosa, the Amazon Molly. Evolution 34: 246-258.
57. Van der Velde, G. & E. J. De Vries, 1985. Handleiding voor het projekt triclade platwormen (Turbellaria, Tricladida). Instrukties voor medewerkers EIS- Nederland, 8: 1-20.
58. Van Oye, E. L., 1941. Verbreitung und Ökologie der paludicolen Tricladen in Belgien. Arch. Hydrobiol. 38: 110-155.