"Cytogenetics and biology of selected representatives of the family Sphaeriidae" Mgr. ing. Tereza Kořínková Abstract of a PhD. thesis The thesis has a form of four separate articles, the full texts of which are included. Two of them were published, one was accepted and one was under revision before submission of the PhD thesis. The articles deal with cytogenetics, breeding and nutrition of selected representatives of the hermaphroditic, viviparous, primarily freshwater bivalves of the family Sphaeriidae (Mollusca: Bivalvia: Veneroida). Although various aspects of the biology of Sphaeriidae have been intensely studied for more than 100 years, many questions still remained unresolved. This thesis brings data on chromosome numbers of 11 species(10 of which have not been studied cytogenetically before) and information on the course of meiosis in two of these species (Chapter 1). Although the chromosome numbers are high (from ca. 140 to more than 240), the behaviour of chromosomes at meiosis rather corresponds to that of diploid organisms. Also the DNA contents in five selected species with high chromosome numbers (as measured by flow- cytometry) do not differ significantly from those in sphaeriids with a diploid chromosome number of 30. Such results contradict an origin of the high chromosome numbers by a...
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:nusl.cz/oai:invenio.nusl.cz:299156 |
| Date | January 2011 |
| Creators | Kořínková, Tereza |
| Contributors | Juřičková, Lucie, Reise, Heike, Marec, František |
| Source Sets | Czech ETDs |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | info:eu-repo/semantics/doctoralThesis |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess |
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