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Chromosomes of Helminthoglyptidae (Pulmonata: gastropoda) Item Type text; Dissertation-Reproduction (electronic) Authors Babrakzai, Noorullah, 1945- Publisher The University of Arizona. Rights Copyright © is held by the author. Digital access to this material is made possible by the University Libraries, University of Arizona. Further transmission, reproduction or presentation (such as public display or performance) of protected items is prohibited except with permission of the author. Download date 05/10/2021 13:02:04 Link to Item http://hdl.handle.net/10150/565321 CHROMOSOMES OF HELMINTHOGLYPTIDAE (PULMONATA: GASTROPODA) by Noorullah Babrakzai A Dissertation Submitted to the Faculty of the DEPARTMENT OF BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements For the Degree of DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY WITH A MAJOR IN ZOOLOGY In the Graduate College THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA 1 9 7 5 THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA GRADUATE COLLEGE I hereby recommend that this dissertation prepared under my direction by ________Noorullah Babrakzai___________________ entitled CHROMOSOMES OF HELMINTHOGLYPTIDAE_____________ (PULMONATA: GASTROPODA)________________________ be accepted as fulfilling the dissertation requirement of the degree o f ___________ DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY__________________ - ' A 0 . 6 Dissertation Directorx Date After inspection of the final copy of the dissertation, the following members of the Final Examination Committee concur in its approval and recommend its acceptance:* £ 0' /9 75 CO. ^7. - 2 a n i This approval and acceptance is contingent on the candidate’s adequate performance and defense of this dissertation at the final oral examination. The inclusion of this sheet bound into the library copy of the dissertation is evidence of satisfactory performance at the final examination. STATEMENT BY AUTHOR This dissertation has been submitted in partial fulfillment of requirements for an advanced degree at The University of Arizona and is deposited in the University Library to be made available to borrowers under rules of the Library. Brief quotations from this dissertation are allowable without special permission, provided that accurate acknowledgment of source is made. Requests for permission for extended quotation from or reproduction of this manuscript in whole or in part may be granted by the head of the major department or the Dean of the Graduate College when in his judgment the proposed use of the material is in the interests of scholarship. In all other instances, however, permission must be obtained from the author. SIGNED: ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I wish to express my appreciation to Dr. Walter B , Miller, major professor and dissertation director, and to Drs, Peter E . Pickens and William B . Heed of the major committee for critically examining this manuscript. Appre­ ciation is also extended to Drs, Wayne R, Ferris and Oscar G, Ward for their service on the minor committee, 1 am greatly indebted to Dr. Walter B, Miller for enthusiastically encouraging and endorsing this study, taking me on numerous fieldtrips for collection of speci­ mens, letting me use specimens from his own collection, and in identification of specimens collected from the field; to Dr, Oscar G, Ward for letting me use his research facilities; to Dr. Joseph T. Bagnara for his help in photomicrography and use of his darkroom; to Donald B , Sayner and Alison Habel for their help and assistance in printing thousands of photomicrographs; to Dr, Wayne R. Ferris for letting me use many chemicals; to my wife Sianoosh Samsam-Bakhtiary for her help in Constructing karyotypes, assistance, useful suggestions, and under­ standing; to Carl Christensen, Pete D'Eliscu, Wendell 0, Gregg, David Richman, Richard Russel, and Richard Reeder for assistance in arduous collecting and for their ■ iv companionship' on several difficult expeditions in.Arizona and California. ■ I wish to thank Margaret Vescovi for her hard work on the drawings and illustrations; Sally Viparina for typing and editing the manuscript; Drs, Joseph C. Beguaert and M. Robinson for their encouragement and suggestions; Drs, John B . Burch and Charlotte M, Patterson for sending me numerous rare reprints on snail chromosomes which were useful in this study. Special thanks are reserved for Drs. Walter B . Miller and Oscar G. Ward for their daily encouragement, genuine interest, and readiness to discuss any and all aspects of malacology and cytogenetics during the past four years. TABLE OF CONTENTS Page LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS . , , ............... ......... vii LIST OF TABLES ...... X ABSTRACT . , •„ xii INTRODUCTION , . 1 MATERIALS AlSfD METHODS 5 Chromosome Spreads 6 The Use of Colchicine ............. 8 Micromanipulation 9 Slides and Coverslips 10 Permanent Mounts , , 10 Photomicrographs 12 Drawings 12 Endopolyploidy 12 Karyotype Analysis 12 MEIOSIS IN HELMINTHOGLYPTIDAE 16 Sonorella odorata Pilsbry and Ferriss, 1919 . 16 Xerarionta areolata .(Pfeiffer, 1845) ....... 17 Sonorelix borregoensis (Berry, 19 29) , . , . 17 Humboldtiana hogeana (Von Martens, 18 92) , . « „ 22 Greggelix indigena (Mabille, 1895) ........ 22 ' Specimen #1 ................. 22 Specimen #2 . ........... 27 Specimen #3 . 27 Helminthoglypta ......... ....... 27 Helminthoglypta cf . lowei (Bartsch, 1918) . 27 Helminthoglypta micrometallioides W. B . Miller,. 1970 . , . , . - 33 Monadenia infumata (Gould, 1855) . i . 33 KARYOTYPES OF HELMINTHOGLYPTID GENERA ........ 38 Sonorella odorata Pilsbry and Ferriss, 1919 . 38 Xerarionta areolata (Pfeiffer, 1845) 42 Sonorelix borregoensis (Berry, 1929). , . , „ , , . 42 Humboldtiana hogeana (Von Martens, 18 92) . , , . , 42 v yi TABLE OF CONTENTS— Continued Page Greggelix indigena (Mabille, 1895) ... 49 Helminthoglypta o f . lowei (Bartsch, 1918) .... 56 Helminthoglypta micrometallioides W. B , Miller, 1970 ................... 56 Monadenia infumata (Gould, 1855) . , . 61 Micrarionta'rufocincta beatula Cockerell, 1929 . 65 Eremarionta indioensis (Yates, 189 0.) ' 69 PHYLOGENETIC RELATIONSHIPS IN HELMINTHOGLYPTIDAE . 73 Sonorellinae ............................ 74 Helminthoglyptinae 83 Humboldtianinae . ..... 87 PHYLOGENETIC relationships b e t w e e n h e l i c a c e a AND POLYGYRACEA , 89 LITERATURE CITED ........ ......... ........... 97 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS Figure Page 1. Meiotic diakinesis of Sonorella odorata .... 18 2. Meiotic metaphase I of 23. odorata 19 3. Meiosis in Xerarionta areolata , 20 4. Meiotic diakinesis of Sonorelix borregoensis . 21 5. Meiotic diakinesis of Humboldtiana hogeana .... 23 6. Meiotic metaphase I of H. hogeana ....... 24 ■ 7, Meiotic metaphase of Greggelix indigena with 2 9 bivalents ........... 25 8, Meiotic diakinesis of Greggelix indigena with 29 bivalents 26 9, Meiotic metaphase I of Greggelix indigena with 2 8 bivalents and a "Y"-shaped trivalent (arrow) . , . 2 8 10, Meiotic diakinesis of Greggelix indigena with 28 bivalents and a chain of three chromosomes (arrow) ............. 29 11, Camera lucida-drawing of pachytene stage of Helminthoglypta cf . lowe i ........... 30 12, Meiotic diplotene stage of H. cf, lowei .... 31 13, Camera lucida drawing of meiotic metaphase I of H. of. lowei .............. 32 14, Camera lucida drawing of interphase nucleus from a squash of ovotestis of H. 'cf_. lowei , . 34 15, Camera lucida drawing of pachytene stage of H, micrometalliojdes 35 16, Morphology of nucleolar organizer in H, cf, lowei and H. micrometalliqides . ....... 36 vii viii LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS— Continued Figure Page 17. Meiotiq diakinesis of Monadenia infuraata .... 37 18. Karyotype of Sonorella odorata . ........ 39 19. Idiogram of the haploid set of S_. odorata based on data in Table 1 . ... ... ... 41 20. Karyotype of Xerarionta areolata . 43 21. Idiogram of the haploid set of X, areolata based on data in Table 2 .......... 45 22. Karyotype of Sonorelix borregoensis 46 23. Idiogram of the haploid set of S_, borregoensis based on data in Table 3 .... 48 24. Karyotype of Humboldtiana hogeana ....... 50 25. Idiogram of the haploid set of H. hogeana based on data in Table 4 . 52 26. Karyotype of Greggelix indigena 53 27. Idiogram of the haploid set of G, indigena based on data in Table 5 . 55 28. Karyotype of Helminthoglypta cf. lowei . , . 57 29. Idiogram of the haploid set of H. cf_. lowei based on data in Table 6 . 59 30. Camera lucida drawing of the mitotic metaphase of Helminthoglypta micrometallioides ..... 60 31. Karyotype of Monadenia infumata 62 32; Idiogram of the haploid set of M, infumata based on data in Table 7 . 64 33. Karyotype of Micrarionta rufocincta beatula . 66 34, Idiogram of the haploid set of M, rp beatula based on data in Table 8 . 68 ix LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS— Continued Figure Page 35. Karyotype of Eremarionta indioensis 70 36. Idiogram of the haploid set of E. indioensis based on data in Table 9 . , , . , ......... 72 37. Phylogenetic schemes within Sonorellinae . , . 78 38. Phylogenetic tree of the Helminthoglyptinae considering Kelminthoglypta primitive and ancestral to Eremarionta . , „ . , , . 84 39. Phylogenetic tree of Helminthoglyptinae considering Eremarionta more primitive than Helminthoglypta ............. 85 40. Tentative phylogeny of Helminthoglyptidae . 88 41. Phylogenetic tree of Helicacean and Polygyracean families ............. 95 LIST OF TABLES Table Page 1, Relative lengths (RL), arm ratios (q/p), centromeric indices (C.I.), and chromosome types of. the haploid set of Sonorella odorata ................. , . 40 2. Relative lengths (RL), arm ratios (q/p), centromeric indices (C.I.), and chromosome types of the haploid
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    A peer-reviewed open-access journal ZooKeys 372:Revision 1–16 (2014) of three camaenid and one bradybaenid species (Gastropoda, Stylommatophora) 1 doi: 10.3897/zookeys.372.6581 RESEARCH ARTICLE www.zookeys.org Launched to accelerate biodiversity research Revision of three camaenid and one bradybaenid species (Gastropoda, Stylommatophora) from China based on morphological and molecular data, with description of a new bradybaenid subspecies from Inner Mongolia, China Pei Wang1,†, Qiong Xiao1,‡, Wei-Chuan Zhou1,§, Chung-Chi Hwang2,| 1 Key Laboratory of Molluscan Quarantine and Identification of AQSIQ, Fujian Entry-Exit Inspection & Quarantine Bureau, Fuzhou, Fujian 350001, China 2 Department of Life Sciences, National University of Kaohsiung, No.700, Kaohsiung University Road, Nan-Tzu District, Kaohsiung 81148, Taiwan † http://zoobank.org/053584B0-FF18-4DB1-B1FB-DD5B1598A848 ‡ http://zoobank.org/899F4240-3528-49E2-9634-CEC190648F50 § http://zoobank.org/F2D83F80-3A6A-4DC8-ABC4-2093430589C7 | http://zoobank.org/D1BC3819-15B9-48C6-AC2F-03A8239F409D Corresponding author: Wei-Chuan Zhou ([email protected]); Chung-Chi Hwang ([email protected]) Academic editor: M. Haase | Received 7 November 2013 | Accepted 9 January 2014 | Published 22 January 2014 http://zoobank.org/5766D7E9-5513-45B4-9C2C-23EC9571D857 Citation: Wang P, Xiao Q, Zhou W-C, Hwang C-C (2014) Revision of three camaenid and one bradybaenid species (Gastropoda, Stylommatophora) from China based on morphological and molecular data, with description of a new bradybaenid subspecies from Inner Mongolia, China. ZooKeys 372: 1–16. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.372.6581 Abstract We have revised the taxonomy of three camaenid and one bradybaenid species from China and described one new subspecies of the genus Bradybaena (Family Bradybaenidae) from Inner Mongolia, China.