Ribosomal DNA clusters and telomeric (TTAGG)n repeats in blue butterflies (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae) with low and high chromosome numbers

Alisa O. Vershinina; Boris A. Anokhin; Vladimir A. Lukhtanov

doi:10.3897/CompCytogen.v9i2.4715

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Chromosomal and molecular evidence for presence of Polyommatus (Agrodiaetus) poseidon (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae) in Caucasus region. Comparative Cytogenetics 9: 249.

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Vladimir A. Lukhtanov, Konstantin A. Efetov, Alexander V. Dantchenko (2019)
Karyotype reinvestigation does not confirm the presence of two cryptic species and interspecific hybridization in the Polyommatus (Agrodiaetus) damocles complex in the Crimea (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae). Comparative Cytogenetics 13: 311.

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Multifaceted biological insights from a draft genome sequence of the tobacco hornworm moth, Manduca sexta. Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology 76: 118.

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Vladimir Lukhtanov, Alexander Dantchenko (2019)
Karyotype of Polyommatus (Agrodiaetus) eriwanensis Forster, 1960 and taxonomic position of P. (A.) interjectus de Lesse, 1960 (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae). Comparative Cytogenetics 13: 359.

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Vladimir A. Lukhtanov, Alexander V. Dantchenko (2021)
Chromosomal and DNA barcode analysis of the Polyommatus (Agrodiaetus) damone (Eversmann, 1841) species complex (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae). Comparative Cytogenetics 15: 1.

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Comparative analysis of chromosomes in the Palaearctic bush-crickets of tribe Pholidopterini (Orthoptera, Tettigoniinae). Comparative Cytogenetics 11: 309.

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Alisa O. Vershinina, Vladimir A. Lukhtanov (2017)
Evolutionary mechanisms of runaway chromosome number change in Agrodiaetus butterflies. Scientific Reports 7: .

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Valentina Kuznetsova, Snejana Grozeva, Vladimir Gokhman (2020)
Telomere structure in insects: A review. Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research 58: 127.

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Vladimir A. Lukhtanov (2019)
Two types of highly ordered micro- and macrochromosome arrangement in metaphase plates of butterflies (Lepidoptera). Comparative Cytogenetics 13: 19.

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Ljudevit Luka Boštjančić, Lena Bonassin, Lucija Anušić, Leona Lovrenčić, Višnja Besendorfer, Ivana Maguire, Frederic Grandjean, Christopher M. Austin, Carola Greve, Alexander Ben Hamadou, Jelena Mlinarec (2021)
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Diversity and evolution of telomeric motifs and telomere DNA organization in insects. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 140: 536.

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Ricardo Micolino, Maykon P. Cristiano, Danon C. Cardoso (2019)
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A new butterfly species from south Russia revealed through chromosomal and molecular analysis of the Polyommatus (Agrodiaetus) damonides complex (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae). Comparative Cytogenetics 11: 769.

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Maria S. Vishnevskaya, Alsu F. Saifitdinova, Vladimir A. Lukhtanov (2016)
Karyosystematics and molecular taxonomy of the anomalous blue butterflies (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae) from the Balkan Peninsula. Comparative Cytogenetics 10: 1.

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First evidence for (TTAGG)n telomeric sequence and sex chromosome post-reduction in Coleorrhyncha (Insecta, Hemiptera). Comparative Cytogenetics 9: 523.

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Cytogenetic markers applied to cytotaxonomy in two soybean pests: Anticarsia gemmatalis (Hübner, 1818) and Chrysodeixis includens (Walker, 1858). PLOS ONE 15: e0230244.

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Vladimir Lukhtanov (2015)
The blue butterfly Polyommatus (Plebicula) atlanticus (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae) holds the record of the highest number of chromosomes in the non-polyploid eukaryotic organisms. Comparative Cytogenetics 9: 683.

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Nazar A. Shapoval, Vladimir A. Lukhtanov (2015)
Intragenomic variations of multicopy ITS2 marker in Agrodiaetus blue butterflies (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae). Comparative Cytogenetics 9: 483.

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