多倍体昆虫

昆虫纲几个主要目中都有多倍体昆虫 ,但十分稀少 ,总共不足百种。多倍体昆虫多为不能飞的和行动迟缓的小型昆虫 ,全为孤雌生殖种类。通常多倍体孤雌生殖型的地理分布比二倍体两性生殖型的更为广泛     

Marker-Aided Selection of Polyploid Poplars

Polyploid breeding is an important means for creating elite varieties for the development of poplar plantations. However, polyploid poplars are rare in natural stands. In this study, we established an analytical toolkit to perform marker-aided selection of polyploid poplars. This toolkit contains 12 SSR primer pairs with sites located in the exonic DNA regions and resulting amplified microsatellites in the intronic/intergenic regions. Highly conserved primer pairs were selected by testing in eight species from four poplar sections. The amplified loci’s variability was examined using trees from a germplasm collection of Populus deltoides. Subsequently, copy numbers amplified by the highly variable primers were experimentally determined using progeny of a full-sib diploid pedigree. Based on the above tests, a subset of primers were finally selected and used for marker-aided selection of polyploid poplars from a set of natural Populus tomentosa stands. The reliability of the established analytical toolkit was further verified using a flow cytometer. We established a fast and reliable technique to screen polyploid poplars from natural stands.     

Polyploid megakaryocytes can complete cytokinesis

Megakaryocytes (MK) undergo polyploidization through endomitosis, a mitotic process that ends prematurely due to aborted cytokinesis. To better understand this and other events associated with MK differentiation, we performed long-term and large-field live cell imaging of human MKs derived in cord blood (CB) and bone marrow (BM) CD34+ cell cultures. Polyploid level of imaged cells was evaluated using three complementary approaches; cell history, cell size and ploidy correlation and nuclei staining. This system and strategy enabled the direct observation of the development of a large number of MKs (n=4865) and to quantify their fates. The most significant finding of this study is that a considerable proportion of polyploid MKs could complete cytokinesis. This unexpected process gave rise to polyploid daughter cell(s) with normal fates and contributed significantly to the expansion of polyploid MKs. Further analyses revealed that the proliferation rate amongst polyploid MKs was inversely correlated to their ploidy level, and that this phenomenon was much more frequent in CB- than BM-derived MKs. Accordingly, endomitosis was identified as the dominant fate of polyploid BM-MKs, while this was less accentuated for polyploid CB-MKs. These findings explain partially why CB-derived MKs remain in lower ploidy class. In conclusion, this study demonstrates that the development of polyploid MK results from the failure and/or success of cytokinesis and brings a new paradigm to the field of megakaryopoiesis.     

Polyploid gamete formation in diploidAvena hybrids

Journal of Genetics - Three methods by which polyploid gametes were formed in segregates of a diploidAvena species hybrid have been described in this paper. They may be briefly outlined as follows:     

齿瓣石斛多倍体的诱导初报

采用多倍体育种技术,对云南的野生热带兰花齿瓣石斛(Dendrobium devonianum)进行多倍体诱导试验。利用秋水仙素作为诱导剂,对二倍体试管苗进行诱导,在短期内培育出多倍体植株。用0.03%的秋水仙素处理齿瓣石斛丛生芽24h,其诱导效果最好。观察结果显示:多倍体齿瓣石斛材料在形态、气孔直径、染色体数目上都有变化。DNA指纹图谱等方面都发生了显著的改变。多倍体齿瓣石斛试管苗出现了植株粗壮、叶片增厚等优良性状。此研究是多倍体育种技术在我国热带兰花育种中的一次成功尝试。     

Trends for Inbreeding in Polyploid Pteridophytes

Abstract Previous studies on the sequence of the gametangium formation in homosporous fern gametophytes (Masuyama, 1975a, b) suggested that diploid and polyploid taxa may favor gametophytic crossing and gametophytic selfing, respectively. In this view, intraspecific polyploids of three fern species ( Phegopteris decursive-pinnata, Lepisorus thunbergianus and Pteris dispar ) have been investigated for the amount of genetic load or the rate of gametophytic selfing. As expected, a marked contrast of mating systems is found between diploids and tetraploids; the former predominantly undergo gametophytic crossing and the latter predominantly undergo gametophytic selfing. It seems likely that diploid homosporous pteridophytes favor gametophytic crossing with some exceptions favoring gametophytic selfing as a derived condition, whereas polyploid homosporous pteridophytes favor gametophytic selfing predominantly.     

Polyploid tissues in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans

During larval development, the number of somatic nuclei in C. elegans hermaphrodites increases from 558 to 959 (J. E. Sulston and H. R. Horvitz, Dev. Biol. 56, 110-156, 1977; J. E. Sulston et al., Dev. Biol. 100, 64-119, 1983). At the same time, the animals increase about 60-fold in volume. We have measured the DNA contents of several classes of nuclei by quantitating the fluorescence of Hoescht 33258 stained DNA (D. G. Albertson et al., Dev. Biol. 63, 165-178, 1978). Probably all embryonic nuclei, including those of neurons, muscles, hypodermis, and intestine, are diploid at hatching. Neurons, muscles, and nondividing hypodermal nuclei remain diploid throughout larval development. The DNA content of the intestinal nuclei doubles at the end of each larval stage, reaching 32C by the adult stage. New hypodermal cells, generated by division of seam cells in the larval stages, undergo an additional round of DNA replication before fusing with the major syncytium (hyp7, Sulston et al., 1983). Thus the larval hyp7 syncytium comprises a fixed number of diploid embryonic nuclei plus an increasing number of tetraploid postembryonic nuclei. Some of the endoreduplications that occur in the intestinal and hypodermal lineages of C. elegans may correspond to nuclear or cellular divisions in another nematode Panagrellus redivivus (P. W. Sternberg and H. R. Horvitz, Dev. Biol. 93, 181-205, 1982).     

Polyploid inter-specific hybrids in the genus Fragaria

Conclusion In conclusion we think it necessary to lay stress on the great faculty to form diploid gametes, and in result polyploid forms shown by allFragaria species, as has been noted by the majority of investigators having worked with these plants.In result of our investigations of diploid-hexaploid and octoploid-hexaploid hybrids, we have found 16 cases of doubling of the chromosome number in sexual cells of hybrids, and 5 cases of doubling in pure species. A cytological analysis of all F₂ hybrids at our disposal (the number of chromosomes has been counted in 14 plants out of 25), as well as of back crosses (the number of chromosomes has been counted in 2 plants out of 6), will doubtless considerably increase this number. The differences in the chromosome sets (7 chromosomes being a whole set) of the species used in crossing, evidently, greatly promotes the above mentioned phenomenon.Starting from experimental data, there may be two ways of explaining the origin of the polyploid series ofFragaria, with 14, 28, 42, 56 somatic chromosomes, found under natural conditions. The first way is that of hybridisation, as a source of origin of polyploid species, (with different chromosome sets) with subsequent doubling of the chromosome number, giving rise to allopolyploids. In regards to the second way, cross pollination is but an external stimulating influence, similar to a series of other factors disturbing the normal course of reduction division, and giving rise to autopolyploids (analogous to the origin of our tetraploid). It is evident, that high polyploid species of the strawberry have originated in the first way.With 1 plate     

Polyploid measles virus with hexameric genome length

Particles of most virus species accurately package a single genome, but there are indications that the pleomorphic particles of parainfluenza viruses incorporate multiple genomes. We characterized a stable measles virus mutant that efficiently packages at least two genomes. The first genome is recombinant and codes for a defective attachment protein with an appended domain interfering with fusion-support function. The second has one adenosine insertion in a purine run that interrupts translation of the appended domain and restores function. In that genome, a one base deletion in a different purine run abolishes polymerase synthesis, but restores hexameric genome length, thus ensuring accurate RNA encapsidation, which is necessary for efficient replication. Thus, the two genomes are complementary. The infection kinetics of this mutant indicate that packaging of multiple genomes does not negatively affect growth. We also show that polyploid particles are produced in standard infections at no expense to infectivity. Our results illustrate how the particles of parainfluenza viruses efficiently accommodate cargoes of different volume, and suggest a mechanism by which segmented genomes may have evolved.     

Polyploid spore formation in diploid orchid species

Extensive cytological studies into all stages of pollinial development in 10 diploid species of orchids belonging to the Arethuseae tribe revealed four possible mechanisms operating premeiotically and meiotically, resulting in the formation of polyploid spores in the form of monads, dyads and triads. The mechanisms involved are: (1) premeiotic disturbances resulting in tetraploid pollen mother cells; (2) faulty anaphase disjunction giving rise to restitution nuclei at both meiotic divisions; (3) failure to participate in meiosis I or meiosis II; and (4) co-orientation of the two spindles during metaphase II. Why fertile diploid species should possess elaborate pathways for the formation of such spores cannot be explained satisfactorily in view of the low frequencies of such spores formed and the absence of a euploid series in the four genera investigated. Nevertheless, these orchid genera, with high basic numbers, could be highly evolved polyploids and the regular formation of such spores could be viewed as a relic of their evolutionary past.     

田埂报春多倍体诱导及其形态学研究

在离体培养条件下,比较不同浓度、不同处理时间的秋水仙素对田埂报春进行染色体加倍的诱导效果。结果表明:0.08%秋水仙素处理48h的诱变效果最佳,诱变率高达56%。经秋水仙素诱导后形成的多倍体植株与原二倍体植株比较,在形态上,四倍体植株表现出多倍体特征,叶片变厚,叶形指数减小,保卫细胞增大,单位面积气孔数减少,叶绿体数明显增多。对变异植株进行细胞学研究发现,体细胞中期染色体数目为2n=4x=36,而原二倍体的染色体数目为2n=2x=18,基数x=9,因此,变异植株(2n=4x=36)为四倍体。前者的核型公式为2n=4x=8L+12M2+4M1+12S,核型属于1A;后者的核型公式为2n=2x=4L+6M2+2M1+6S,核型也属于1A。检测发现少数个体有非整倍体变异。     

大花蕙兰多倍体的高效诱导

以大花蕙兰‘红瀑布’无菌苗丛芽为材料、秋水仙素为诱变剂,采用不同的处理浓度、时间诱导大花蕙兰体细胞加倍。通过形态学和细胞学观察、统计等方法对其进行倍性鉴定。结果表明：秋水仙素浓度0.05%,处理时间24 h的条件下,诱导率高达28.2%;多倍体苗外部形态、叶绿体数目、气孔数目和大小与二倍体差异大,加倍后的细胞核明显变大,染色体倍数增加。