Abstract
Cytologically, Puto has proved more primitive than its taxonomic position would indicate. In the single previously described example (Hughes-Schrader, 1944), an uncomplicated inverted meiotic sequence was described for the males. The present example, P. albicans, showed a significantly more primitive inverted sequence. Unlike the other examples reported for aphids and coccids, the chromatids of the dyads neither dissociated nor reassociated during interkinesis. Instead, they remained closely associated and interconnected by an unresolved terminal chiasmate attachment. At first metaphase, the spindle attachments were localized to a restricted region of the poleward surface of the chromatids. Localization of attachment during meiosis and close association of chromatids during interkinesis are both suggestive of similar but not identical conditions expected in ancestors with an uninverted meiotic sequence. A second species proved intermediate between P. albicans and that described by Hughes-Schrader in which a complete cycle of dissociation and reassociation occurred during interkinesis. In P. albicans the pachytene bivalents showed no structures suggestive of centric localizations. At their greatest condensation at first metaphase, the chromatids were clearly subdivided into half chromatids. Limited observations were made on chromosomes of other species of Puto and of Phenacoleachia zealandica, and also on spermiogenesis and mycetocyte formation in Puto. The discussion is devoted to considerations of chromatid subdivision, holokinetic chromosomes, and meiotic inversion and some evolutionary implications are mentioned.
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Brown, S.W., Cleveland, C. Meiosis in the male of Puto albicans (Coccoidea-Homoptera) . Chromosoma 24, 210–232 (1968). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00285204
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