Simple Summary The class Insecta constitutes the largest group of terrestrial animals, with
more than a million described species. As in all other animals, insect genomes contain …

Chromosomal banding techniques and repetitive DNA mapping are useful tools in
comparative analysis and in the elucidation of genome organization of several groups of …

Background Scarabaeinae beetles show a high level of macro-chromosomal variability,
although the karyotypic organization of heterochromatin and multigene families (rDNAs and …

The genus Eucalyptus encloses several species with high ecological and economic value,
being the subgenus Symphyomyrtus one of the most important. Species such as E. grandis …

We comparatively analyzed six Dichotomius species (Coleoptera: Scarabainae) through
cytogenetic methods and mitochondrial genes sequencing in the aim to identify patterns of …

Alticinae has the greatest amount of biodiversity among the Chrysomelidae, with 40,000
described species, only 290 of which have been analyzed cytogenetically. The majority of …

In the present study, the origin of recurrent rearrangements involving chromosome 6 in 3.2%
of cells of Melolontha melolontha (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae) was investigated. Various …

The aim of this study was the identification of the ancestral location of the nucleolus
organizer region (NOR) in the Scarabaeoidea superfamily, and its evolutive trends in the …

Omophoita belongs to the tribe Oedionychini and is endemic from Neotropical region. The
species of the tribe Oedionychini have revealed certain singular chromosomal features …

Repetitive DNA sequences constitute a high fraction of eukaryotic genomes and are
considered a key component for the chromosome and karyotype evolution. For a better …