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What is the True Karyotype of Bufotes latastii (Amphibia, Anura, Bufonidae)?

Dmitriy V. Skorinov, Polina S. Mizhareva, Roza A. Pasynkova, Spartak N. Litvinchuk

Abstract


The karyotype is one of the most important characteristics of an animal species and can be very useful for identifying taxa. The chromosome sets of the West Himalayan endemic Ladakh toad, Bufotes latastii, were previously described in several papers, but differed greatly from each other. To deal with these contradictions, we re-examined the karyotype of B. latastii from India and compared it with the sets of chromosomes of the most morphologically similar toad species inhabiting East Asia. It turned out that the diploid set of B. latastii consists of 22 chromosomes (2n = 22; NF = 44), of which six pairs are large and five are small. As a rule, the 4th, 5th, and 7th pairs of chromosomes are submetacentric and all the others are metacentric. The chromosomal formula is 2n = 16 m + + 6 sm = 22. The nucleolar organizers (NOR) in B. latastii are located on the long arms of submetacentric chromosomes of the 5th pair, which greatly distinguishes this species from most diploid species of the genus Bufotes. Karyotypes of two other studied species (Duttaphrynus stomaticus and Strauchbufo raddei), which can be morphologically similar to B. latastii, also consist of 22 chromosomes (2n = 22; NF = 44) of which six pairs are large and five are small, but there is only a pair of submetacentric chromosomes (2n = 20 m + 2 sm = 22). The most notable differences between these three species were in the position of NORs. In B. latastii they were located in the telomeric region of the long arm of the 5th pair, in D. stomaticus in the submedial region of the short arm of the 7th pair, and in S. raddei in the telomeric region of the short arm of the 4th pair. Discriminant analyses of the relative length of chromosomes and centromeric indices also revealed significant differences between the karyotypes of these three species. Our study made it possible to clearly distinguish B. latastii from D. stomaticus and S. raddei by karyotype characteristics. This may be important if it is necessary to identify East Asian morphologically similar toad species.

Keywords


chromosome; nucleolar organizer; toads; Jammu and Kashmir

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.30906/1026-2296-2024-31-5-265-274

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