Karyotypes and COI Gene Sequences of Chironomus sp. Le1 (Kiknadze and Salova, 1996), Ch. laetus (Belyanina and Filinkova, 1996) and Their Hybrid from the Yamal Peninsula, Arctic Zone of Russia

• Published in: Insects
• Main Authors: Viktor Bolshakov, Alexander Prokin, Dmitry Pavlov, Azamat Akkizov, Ekaterina Movergoz
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2022
• Subjects: karyotype; hybrid; Chironomus; Chironomus laetus; Ch. sp. Le1; COI; DNA-barcoding; comparative cytogenetics; Arctic; Yamal Peninsula
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.3390/insects13121112

The study of the biological diversity of the Arctic zone yields intriguing results. Initial research on the lakes of the Yamal Peninsula resulted in the identification of Chironomus laetus and the hybrid Ch. laetus × Ch. sp. Le1. To avoid misidentification, we used morphological, cytogenetic, and mo...