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  • Title: [Variability of pericentromeric chromatin in chromosome 2 of ovarian nurse cells during inbreeding in Anopheles atroparvus V.Tiel].
    Author: Burlak VA, Sharakhova MV, Sharakhov IV, Lapik ER, Sibataev AK.
    Journal: Genetika; 1998 Jul; 34(7):992-5. PubMed ID: 9749341.
    Abstract:
    We investigated the variability of pericentromeric chromatin of chromosome 2 in ovarian nurse cells (trophocytes) in two laboratory lines of malaria mosquito Anopheles atroparvus V. Tiel and in their hybrids. One line had been raised by means of sib inbreeding, the other kept at constantly high population density. The inbreeding was shown to result in an increased percentage of chromosomes bearing an achromatinic zone in the centromeric region, which resulted in chromosome breakage. Toxicological tests demonstrated an increase in the sensitivity of the progeny of females with abnormal morphotypes of chromosome 2 to the entomopathogenic bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis israelensis. The appearance of the achromatinic zone is attributed to local chromatin underreplication accompanying chromosome polytenization. Possible reasons for this phenomenon and its implication for adaptation are discussed.
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