Long-term retainment of some chromosomal inversions in a local population of Belgica antarctica Jacobs (Diptera, Chironomidae)

• Main Authors: Michailova, Paraskeva, Ilkova, Julia, Kovalenko, Pavlo, Dzhulai, Artem, Kozeretska, Iryna
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Masaryk Univerzity 2021
• Subjects: Antarctic midge; salivary gland chromosomes; heterozygous inversion; dark band; Antarctic; Lockroy; Port Lockroy; Wiencke; Wiencke Island; Antarc*; Antarctica; Belgica antarctica
• Online Access: http://journals.muni.cz/CPR/article/view/15415

Genome of antarctic endemic Belgica antarctica Jacobs has been sequenced. However, no set of inversion diagnostic markers has ever been assigned for the species. Using the classical method of polytene chromosome squash preparation, we found three heterozygous inversions located on the second (two he...