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CHIRONOMID MIDGES (DIPTERA, CHIRONOMIDAE) SHOW EXTREMELY SMALL GENOME SIZES

Form of presentation

Articles in Russian journals and collections

Year of publication

2015

Язык

английский

Authors, employees of KFU

Gusev Oleg Aleksandrovich, author

Other authors

Cornette Richard M., author

Okuda Takashi N., author

Bibliographic description in the original language

Chironomid Midges (Diptera, Chironomidae) Show Extremely Small Genome Sizes / R Cornette, O Gusev, Y Nakahara, S Shimura, T Kikawada, T Okuda // Zoological Science 32(3):248-254. 2015 doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.2108/zs140166

Annotation

Chironomid midges (Diptera; Chironomidae) are found in various environments from the high Arctic to the Antarctic, including temperate and tropical regions. In many freshwater habitats, members of this family are among the most abundant invertebrates. In the present study, the genome sizes of 25 chironomid species were determined by flow cytometry and the resulting C-values ranged from 0.07 to 0.20 pg DNA (i.e. from about 68 to 195 Mbp). These genome sizes were uniformly very small and included, to our knowledge, the smallest genome sizes recorded to date among insects. Small proportion of transposable elements and short intron sizes were suggested to contribute to the reduction of genome sizes in chironomids. We discuss about the possible developmental and physiological advantages of having a small genome size and about putative implications for the ecological success of the family Chironomidae

Keywords

genome size, C-value, insects, chironomids, ecological adaptation

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ZOOL SCI

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Field DC	Value	Language
dc.contributor.author	Gusev Oleg Aleksandrovich	ru_RU
dc.contributor.author	Cornette Richard M.	ru_RU
dc.contributor.author	Okuda Takashi N.	ru_RU
dc.date.accessioned	2015-01-01T00:00:00Z	ru_RU
dc.date.available	2015-01-01T00:00:00Z	ru_RU
dc.date.issued	2015	ru_RU
dc.identifier.citation	Chironomid Midges (Diptera, Chironomidae) Show Extremely Small Genome Sizes / R Cornette, O Gusev, Y Nakahara, S Shimura, T Kikawada, T Okuda // Zoological Science 32(3):248-254. 2015 doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.2108/zs140166	ru_RU
dc.identifier.uri	https://repository.kpfu.ru/eng/?p_id=121018&p_lang=2	ru_RU
dc.description.abstract	ZOOL SCI	ru_RU
dc.description.abstract	Chironomid midges (Diptera; Chironomidae) are found in various environments from the high Arctic to the Antarctic, including temperate and tropical regions. In many freshwater habitats, members of this family are among the most abundant invertebrates. In the present study, the genome sizes of 25 chironomid species were determined by flow cytometry and the resulting C-values ranged from 0.07 to 0.20 pg DNA (i.e. from about 68 to 195 Mbp). These genome sizes were uniformly very small and included, to our knowledge, the smallest genome sizes recorded to date among insects. Small proportion of transposable elements and short intron sizes were suggested to contribute to the reduction of genome sizes in chironomids. We discuss about the possible developmental and physiological advantages of having a small genome size and about putative implications for the ecological success of the family Chironomidae	ru_RU
dc.language.iso	ru	ru_RU
dc.subject	genome size	ru_RU
dc.subject	C-value	ru_RU
dc.subject	insects	ru_RU
dc.subject	chironomids	ru_RU
dc.subject	ecological adaptation	ru_RU
dc.title	Chironomid Midges (Diptera, Chironomidae) Show Extremely Small Genome Sizes	ru_RU
dc.type	Articles in Russian journals and collections	ru_RU