title: Karyotype evolution in Rhinolophus bats (Rhinolophidae, Chiroptera) illuminated by cross-species chromosome painting and G-banding comparison.
abstract: Rhinolophus (Rhinolophidae) is the second most speciose genus in Chiroptera and has extensively diversified diploid chromosome numbers (from 2n = 28 to 62). In spite of many attempts to explore the karyotypic evolution of this genus, most studies have been based on conventional Giemsa staining rather than G-banding. Here we have made a whole set of chromosome-specific painting probes from flow-sorted chromosomes of Aselliscus stoliczkanus (Hipposideridae). These probes have been utilized to establish the first genome-wide homology maps among six Rhinolophus species with four different diploid chromosome numbers (2n = 36, 44, 58, and 62) and three species from other families: Rousettus leschenaulti (2n = 36, Pteropodidae), Hipposideros larvatus (2n = 32, Hipposideridae), and Myotis altarium (2n = 44, Vespertilionidae) by fluorescence in situ hybridization. To facilitate integration with published maps, human paints were also hybridized to A. stoliczkanus chromosomes. Our painting results substantiate the wide occurrence of whole-chromosome arm conservation in Rhinolophus bats and suggest that Robertsonian translocations of different combinations account for their karyotype differences. Parsimony analysis using chromosomal characters has provided some new insights into the Rhinolophus ancestral karyotype and phylogenetic relationships among these Rhinolophus species so far studied. In addition to Robertsonian translocations, our results suggest that whole-arm (reciprocal) translocations involving multiple non-homologous chromosomes as well could have been involved in the karyotypic evolution within Rhinolophus, in particular those bats with low and medium diploid numbers.
authors: Key Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular Evolution, Kunming Institute of Zoology, Kunming, Yunnan, PR China.
authors: Xiuguang
authors: X
authors: Mao
authors: Wenhui
authors: W
authors: Nie
authors: Jinhuan
authors: J
authors: Wang
authors: Weiting
authors: W
authors: Su
authors: Lei
authors: L
authors: Ao
authors: Qing
authors: Q
authors: Feng
authors: Yingxiang
authors: Y
authors: Wang
authors: Marianne
authors: M
authors: Volleth
authors: Fengtang
authors: F
authors: Yang
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D005075:Biological Evolution; D002685:Chiroptera / Q000145:classification* / Q000235:genetics*; D002871:Chromosome Banding / Q000379:methods*; D020223:Chromosome Painting / Q000379:methods*; D033481:Chromosomes, Mammalian / Q000235:genetics*; D020732:Cytogenetic Analysis; D006801:Humans; D007621:Karyotyping / Q000662:veterinary; D010802:Phylogeny; D013045:Species Specificity; D014178:Translocation, Genetic