Apinae Austroplebeia
Cytogenetic data
Tribe | Species | Sample local | Country(ies) | Haploid(n) | Diploid(2n) | Karyotype | Notes | Genome size (pg) | Classic cytogenetic data | Molecular cytogenetic data | References |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Meliponini | Austroplebeia australis | Sidney | Australia | 36 | C-banding | FISH (ribosomal, repetitive, microsatellites probes) | Pereira et al. 2020  Travenzoli et al. 2022   |
Chromosome classification: Levan et al. (1964): metacentric (m), submetacentric (sm), subtelocentric (st), or acrocentric (a). Imai (1991): metacentric (M) or acrocentric (A), with a variety of forms depending on the position of the heterochromatin on the karyotype.
You can download this data as csv.
Histogram

Bibliography
Travenzoli, N.M., Cunha, M.S., Teixeira, L.V., Brito, R.M., Oldroyd, B., Campos, L.A.O., Lopes, D.M. Cytogenetic characterization of Austroplebeia australis: evolutionary hints from a stingless bee outside the Neotropical region. Apidologie, 53 : pp 64. 2022. DOI: [10.1007/s13592-022-00969-8 https://doi.org/10.1007/s13592-022-00969-8]
Pereira, J.A., Salomão, T.M.F., Lopes, D.M. Different repetitive DNA sequences make up heterochromatin in Meliponini. Apidologie, 51 : pp 855-860. 2020. DOI: [10.1007/s13592-020-00766-1 https://doi.org/10.1007/s13592-020-00766-1]