Karyological analysis of the sea cicada Blepharipoda liberate Shen from the Rizhao intertidal zone, China

作     者：ZHOU Liqing WANG Xuemei WU Biao SUN Xiujun ZHAO Qing ZHANG Gaowei LIU Zhihong YANG Aiguo 

作者机构：Key Laboratory of Sustainable Development of Marine Fisheries Ministry of Agriculture Yellow Sea Fisheries Institute Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences Laboratory for Marine Fisheries Science and Food Production Processes Qingdao National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology Rizhao Ocean & Fisheries Research Institute 

出 版 物：《Journal of Oceanology and Limnology》 (海洋湖沼学报（英文）)

年 卷 期：2019年第37卷第1期

页      面：169-175页

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学科分类：07[理学] 

基　　金：Supported by the Shandong Province Agricultural Seed Improvement Project(No.2013lz058) the Central Public-interest Scientific Institution Basal Research Fund,YSFRI,CAFS(No.20603022018004) the Rizhao City Applied Technology Research and Development Project(No.rzkj20122009) the Rizhao City Enhancement and Releasing Project(No.rz2013012) 

主　　题：Blepharipoda liberate chromosome karyotype lampbrush chromosome 

摘      要：Blepharipoda liberate Shen is a commercially valuable seafood species that has important ecological signi?cance in Shandong Province, China. Although B. liberate is crustacean, its external characteristics are not entirely those of shrimps or crabs. The question of whether B. liberate is a shrimp or a crab has been debated in recent years. We studied the karyotype of B. liberate by light microscopy using air-drying and spreading methods. We obtained mitotic chromosomal plates from B. liberate larvae, and from adult B. liberate females subsequent to egg-laying. The results revealed that B. liberate has 53 pairs of chromosomes(i.e., n =53 and 2 n =106), a characteristic shared with four species of crab. The karyogram of B. liberate consists of 25 metacentric, 14 submetacentric, 11 subtelocentric and 3 telocentric pairs. We did not ?nd any heteromorphosis sex chromosomes. Tissue from larvae, gills and ovaries can be used for chromosomal investigations, and we found similar lampbrush chromosomes in ovary cells. Comparatively speaking, larvae tissue is more practical, and ovary tissue is more suitable for the preparation of lampbrush chromosomes. B. liberate is more closely related to crabs than to shrimps, based on the numbers of chromosomes. The B. liberate karyotype reported here provides a basis for further comparative cytogenetic studies of species populations.