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Chromosomes of the Coral Goniopora Lobata (Anthozoa: Scieractinia) Heredity 55 (1985) 269-271 The Genetical Society of Great Britain Received 20 March 1985 Chromosomes of the coral Goniopora lobata (Anthozoa: Scieractinia) A. J. Heyward Department of Marine Biology, James Cook University of North Queensland, QId., 4811, Australia. This study presents the first karyotype of a scleractinian coral. Goniopora lobata is a dioecious, tropical coral whose larvae develop externally after the synchronous release of eggs and sperm. In the first 12 hours of development the embryos are an excellent source of metaphase material and allow good chromosome preparations to be made. The karyotype of 28 (n =14)chromosomes, between I and 5 microns long, consists of nine metacentric and five submetacentric pairs. A subtelocentric secondary constriction is present on one pair of metacentrics. INTRODUCTION 128—256 cell stages. The embryos were then treated with either 002, 005 or O1 per cent (w/v) col- Thereis very little information of any kind about chicine-seawater for 2 hours with continual agita- anthozoan cytogenetics. In the sole study of tion. They were subsequently rinsed once in clean scieractinian coral chromosomes (Wijsman and seawater and immediately fixed in cold (4°C) Wijsman-Best, 1973), the use of somatic tissue glacial acetic acid-absolute ethanol (1/3, v/v). from adult colonies to establish mitotic figures was Fixed material was stored at 4°C. only partially successful. No exact chromosome counts were established. Subsequently, no further Squashpreparation work on coral chromosomes has been reported. Priorto staining the fixed embryos were soaked in Recently, it has become apparent that the ethyl ether for 2 hours. This removed most of the majority of coral species reproduce by releasing lipid reserves in the cells which otherwise made gametes into the water, followed by external ferti- light microscopy difficult. Embryos were then lisation and development (Harrison et a!., 1984). placed in a drop of lacto-acetic orcein on a cover- In the present study the rapidly dividing cells of slip for 15 minutes prior to the application of a such externally developing coral embryos have been utilised to provide the first chromosome glass slide and firm squashing. Preparations were photographed using transmitted green light and a preparations from a tropical reef coral. 100 x oil immersion objective (Olympus BHS 312). Micrographs were recorded on Kodak technical pan 2415 film developed for maximum contrast. MATERIALSAND METHODS Fieldwork was done at the Orpheus Island RESULTS Research Station, 70 km northeast of Townsville, Australia. Five colonies of the dioecious coral G. Eachcolchicine treatment yielded material of lobata were collected from the fringing reef adja- similar appearance. In some embryos very large cent to the research laboratory, two days prior to numbers of metaphase stages were seen. The the predictable spawning event (Harrison et a!., chromosomes were often highly contracted. When 1984). Colonies were held in aquaria until they there was good separation such plates were used spawned. The released gametes were mixed for counts. A survey of 50 plates identified a com- together and transferred to jars of seawater for plement of 28 chromosomes. However, it was not culture. Continuous agitation of the developing uncommon to find individual chromosomes widely embryos was essential. Approximately 9 hours dispersed during squashing, resulting in incom- after spawning, embryogenesis had proceeded to pletenuclei.In some preparations such 270 A.J. HEYWARD 'I'able 1Goniopora lobata. Relative lengths and centromeric indices of the fourteen chromosome pairs: means and standard deviations obtained from the measurements of )f 1111 U (11 five metaphase plates Chromosome Relative length Centromeric index 1 10001:48 325±13 2 836±1'S 332±22 11 II II It U 3 802±51 361 i46 4 769±36 434±38 5 751±46 403±36 6 693±31 37-3±30 7 63-0±20 40-9127 $1 H It os 8 602±47 429±26 Figure 1Gonioporalobata. Arrangementof a typical chromo- 9 544±34 450±52 some complement. Arrows indicate the secondary constric- 10 53.75.5 373±36 tion on pair 5. Scale bar equals 5 irn. 11 498±22 41-7±2-5 12 49-3±3-7 456±35 13 43-1±47 418±18 disassociated chromosomes formed large aggrega- 14 328±35 500±2-7 tions of stained material. The rarer preparations containing elongated chromosomes enabled both counts and ploidy to standard deviations of the relative lengths and be determined. Ten such plates revealed that the centromeric indices of the fourteen chromosome complement of 28 chromosomes contained unique pairs are given in table 1. The idiogram (fig. 2) is pairs, presumably reflecting the diploid nature of derived from these values. According to the the karyotype (n =14).The elongated chromo- nomenclature of Levan et a!. (1964) there are nine somes ranged in length from i—S i.m. In most cases metacentric and five submetacentric pairs. Most the centromere was obvious. The karyotype has pairs are close to metacentric. There is a steady been arranged according to chromosome length decrease in size from pair 1—13, then a more pro- and centromere position (fig. 1). The means and nounced step down from pair 13-14. One poten- 100 90 80 4-' C., C 70 60 a) 50 4-' a) 40 30 20 10 2 3 4 5 7 8 9 10 11 1213 14 Chromosome Figure 2Gonioporalohata. Idiogramof one set of diploid chromosomes (2n28). CHROMOSOMES OF THE CORAL GONIOPORA LOBATA 271 tially useful marker of the karyotype is the secon- gest that chromosome number may be highly con- dary subtelocentric constriction present on pair 5 servative among the Scleractinia. (figs. 1 and 2). However this constriction was not always obvious. Acknowledgements I wish to especially thank L. Winsor and Z. Florian for their instruction, encouragement and generous assistance in preparing and photographing the material. Prof. DISCUSSION B. John and Dr B. Jackes provided much appreciated advise and assistance with interpretation. This study was supported Theseare the first quantitative data on coral by an Australian Postgraduate Research Award and the Sclerac- chromosomes. The majority of coral species have tinian Coral Research Unit at James Cook University. external development (Babcock et a!., unpubi. data) and consequently lend themselves to the REFERENCES karyological techniques employed here. 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