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1. A skeletochronological estimate of age and growth in a large riparian frog from Madagascar (Anura, Mantellidae, Mantidactylus)

Author

Angelica Crottini, Marcello Mezzasalma, Franco Andreone, Fabio Maria Guarino, Jasmin E. Randrianirina, Guarino, Fabio M., Crottini, Angelica, Mezzasalma, Marcello, Randrianirina, Jasmin E., and Andreone, Franco

Subjects
0106 biological sciences, phalangeal skeletochronology, Mantellidae, 010607 zoology, Zoology, sexual size dimorphism, 010603 evolutionary biology, 01 natural sciences, Aerugoamnis, Mantidactylus, Amphibia, Gnathostomata, longevity, lcsh:Zoology, Animalia, Branchiostoma capense, lcsh:QL1-991, Chordata, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Riparian zone, Vertebrata, Lissamphibia, geography, Craniata, geography.geographical_feature_category, biology, Ymeria, growth curve, longevity, Malagasy herpetofauna, Mantidactylus subgenus, phalangeal skeletochronology, sexual size dimorphism, Vevembe, Cephalornis, biology.organism_classification, Mantidactylus subgenus, Malagasy herpetofauna, Vevembe, Animal Science and Zoology, Anura, growth curve
Abstract

We characterized the body size (as snout-vent length), age, sexual size dimorphism, and growth rate in a population of one of the larger riparian frog from Madagascar (Mantidactylusgrandidieri) from a rainforest patch close to Vevembe, SE Madagascar. We identified a significant female-biased sexual size dimorphism. Age was estimated using phalangeal skeletochronology and was significantly higher in females than in males. Modal age class turned out to be 4 years in both sexes but a large percentage of adult females (75%) fell in the 5–6 years-old classes, while no male exceeded 4 years. We here report M.grandidieri as a medium-long-lived anuran species. Von Bertalanffy’s model showed similar growth trajectories between the sexes although the growth coefficient in females (k = 0.335) was slightly but not significantly higher than in males (k = 0.329).

Published
2019

2. Karyological diversification in the genus lyciasalamandra (Urodela: Salamandridae)

Author

Agnese Petraccioli, Marcello Mezzasalma, Gaetano Odierna, Michael Veith, Fabio Maria Guarino, Mezzasalma, M., Odierna, G., Petraccioli, A., Veith, M., and Guarino, F. M.

Subjects
0106 biological sciences, Lineage (genetic), NOR heteromorphism, Heterochromatin, Evolution, Veterinary medicine, Karyotype, Lyciasalamandra, Chromosome banding, Subspecies, 010603 evolutionary biology, 01 natural sciences, Article, Phylogenetic diversification, Amphibia, 03 medical and health sciences, Genus, SF600-1100, 030304 developmental biology, NOR hetero-morphism, Salamandridae, 0303 health sciences, General Veterinary, biology, biology.organism_classification, QL1-991, Evolutionary biology, Animal Science and Zoology, Salamandra, Zoology
Abstract

Simple Summary The Lycian salamanders of the genus Lyciasalamandra are characterized by a debated taxonomy and phylogenetic relationships. They have been the subject of various molecular and phylogenetic analyses, but their chromosomal diversity is completely unknown. We here present a comparative cytogenetic analysis on five out of the seven described species and seven subspecies of Lyciasalamandra, providing the first karyological assessment on the genus and comparing them to closely related representatives of the genus Salamandra. We analyzed the occurrence and distribution of different conserved (chromosome number and morphology) and highly variable karyological features. We found an impressive diversity in the configuration of nucleolus organizing regions (NORs), which alternatively occur either as heteromorphic or homomorphic loci on distinct regions of different chromosome pairs. We highlight that the observed peculiar taxon-specific pattern of chromosome markers supports the taxonomic validity of the different studied evolutionary lineages and is consistent with a scenario of synchronous evolution in the Lycian salamanders. Abstract We performed the first cytogenetic analysis on five out of the seven species of the genus Lyciasalamandra, including seven subspecies, and representatives of its sister genus Salamandra. All the studied species have a similar karyotype of 2n = 24, mostly composed of biarmed elements. C-bands were observed on all chromosomes, at centromeric, telomeric and interstitial position. We found a peculiar taxon-specific NOR configuration, including either heteromorphic and homomorphic NORs on distinct regions of different chromosomes. Lyciasalamandra a. antalyana and L. helverseni showed two homomorphic NORs (pairs 8 and 2, respectively), while heteromorphic NORs were found in L. billae (pairs 6, 12), L. flavimembris (pairs 2, 12), L. l. luschani (pairs 2, 12), L. l. basoglui (pairs 6, 12), L. l. finikensis (pairs 2, 6) and S. lanzai (pairs 8, 10). Homomorphic NORs with an additional supernumerary site were shown by S. s. salamandra (pairs 2, 8) and S. s. gigliolii (pairs 2, 10). This unexpected highly variable NOR configuration is probably derived from multiple independent NOR translocations and paracentric inversions and correlated to lineage divergence in Lyciasalamandra. These results support the taxonomic validity of the studied taxa and are consistent with a hypothesized scenario of synchronous evolution in the genus.

Published
2021

3. When can chromosomes drive speciation? The peculiar case of the Malagasy tomato frogs (genus Dyscophus)

Author

Fabio Maria Guarino, Gaetano Odierna, Frank Glaw, Franco Andreone, Marcello Mezzasalma, Gennaro Aprea, Marcello, Mezzasalma, Franco, Andreone, Gennaro, Aprea, Frank, Glaw, Gaetano, Odierna, and Guarino, FABIO MARIA

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0106 biological sciences, 0301 basic medicine, Genetics, biology, Disjunct distribution, Allopatric speciation, Dyscophus insularis, Parapatric speciation, biology.organism_classification, 010603 evolutionary biology, 01 natural sciences, Triturus, Genetic divergence, 03 medical and health sciences, 030104 developmental biology, Evolutionary biology, Sympatric speciation, Genetic algorithm, Animal Science and Zoology, Chromosomal speciation Autosomal heteromorphism Microhylidae Amphibia Madagascar
Abstract

Except for polyploidy, parthenogenesis and hybridogenesis, the role of chromosome rearrangements in speciation is still highly debated. This paper highlights an unusual karyotype diversification and a putative case of chromosomal speciation in the endemic Malagasy tomato frogs. The tomato frogs include Dyscophus insularis as well as the sister species D. antongilii and D. guineti, which are characterized by a disjunct distribution and a low genetic divergence, probably due to a recent hybridization. Our results show that the three Dyscophus species present 2n = 26 biarmed chromosomes, differing in chromatin pattern. Interestingly, both sexes of D. guineti show a heteromorphic chromosome pair 11, with one element larger (11a) than the other (11b) due to the presence of a large terminal tract on the short arm with an euchromatic band enclosed between two heterochromatic bands. This fixed condition reminds that of some newts of the genus Triturus, but in Dyscophus it probably characterizes the beginning of a cladogenetic process. We hypothesize that in D. guineti the raising of the heteromorphic 11th chromosome pair followed the hybridization with D. antongilii, originating a post-zygotic barrier and representing a case of sympatric or parapatric chromosomal speciation. This speciation mechanism may also have had important biogeographic consequences, shaping the current disjunct distribution of D. antongilii and D. guineti, so far not sufficiently explained.

Published
2017

4. Skeletochronology, age at maturity and cause of mortality of loggerhead sea turtles Caretta caretta stranded along the beaches of Campania (south-western Italy, western Mediterranean Sea)

Author

Marcello Mezzasalma, Fabio Maria Guarino, Agnese Petraccioli, Gaetano Odierna, Francesco Pollaro, Doriana Iaccarino, Nicola Maio, Fabio Di Nocera, Domenico Iovino, Giorgio Galiero, Guarino, F. M., Di Nocera, F., Pollaro, F., Galiero, G., Iaccarino, D., Iovino, D., Mezzasalma, M., Petraccioli, A., Odierna, G., and Maio, N.

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0106 biological sciences, Reptilia, Age at maturity, age structure, 010603 evolutionary biology, 01 natural sciences, sexual maturity, gonadal analysis, cause of death, Mediterranean sea, lcsh:Zoology, Mediterranean Sea, Animalia, Skeletochronology, marine turtles, Gonadal analysi, lcsh:QL1-991, Chordata, age structure Caretta caretta cause of death gonadal analysis marine turtles Mediterranean Sea phalanx sexual maturity, Marine turtle, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Caretta caretta, 010604 marine biology & hydrobiology, Caretta, Fishery, Geography, phalanx, Cheloniidae, Testudines, Animal Science and Zoology
Abstract

Information on demographic and life-history traits of endangered vertebrate species, such as sea turtles, is crucial for planning management and conservation actions. We applied skeletochronology of phalanges to estimate the age of loggerhead turtles, Caretta caretta, found dead stranded along the beaches of Campania (western Mediterranean) from 2013 to 2017. To obtain maturity data, we examined gonads from a subsample of 7 males and 11 females. Overall, curved carapace length (CCL) ranged from 5.6 to 90.8 cm, but for most turtles (89%) it was 50–79.9 cm. Predominance of stranded females (62%) was recorded. Ten out of the eighteen histologically examined gonads allowed estimating maturity. Based on the lines of arrested growth counting, the estimated age of the examined specimens ranged from 0 (hatchling) to 26 years. The modal age was 14 years for males and 17 years for females. The smallest male with spermatogenetic activity had a CCL of 65 cm and was estimated to be 16 years old. The smallest female with follicular development stage, characterising the transition towards adulthood, had a CCL of 69.5 cm and was estimated to be 20 years old. Anthropogenic factors were responsible for 36% of the mortality of individuals, followed by parasitic/infective pathologies (20%).

Published
2020

5. Karyological characterization of the common chameleon (Chamaeleo chamaeleon) provides insights on the evolution and diversification of sex chromosomes in Chamaeleonidae

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Orfeo Picariello, Marcello Mezzasalma, Gaetano Odierna, Fabio Maria Guarino, Noureddine Chatti, Agnese Petraccioli, Marwa Sidhom, Khaled Said, Sidhom, M., Said, K., Chatti, N., Guarino, F. M., Odierna, G., Petraccioli, A., Picariello, O., and Mezzasalma, M.

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0106 biological sciences, 0301 basic medicine, Male, medicine.medical_specialty, Heterochromatin, Karyotype, 010603 evolutionary biology, 01 natural sciences, Polymerase Chain Reaction, Molecular cytogenetics, 03 medical and health sciences, medicine, Animals, DNA Barcoding, Taxonomic, Chamaeleo chamaeleon, Sex Chromosomes, biology, medicine.diagnostic_test, Base Sequence, Cytogenetics, Chromosome, Lizards, biology.organism_classification, Biological Evolution, 030104 developmental biology, Evolutionary biology, karyology, male sex-linked sequences, sex-chromosomesFISH, chameleons, evolution, reptiles, Cytogenetic Analysis, Microchromosome, Animal Science and Zoology, Female, Fluorescence in situ hybridization
Abstract

Chameleons display high karyological diversity in chromosome number (from 2n = 20 to 62), morphology, heterochromatin distribution and location of specific chromosomal markers, making them unique study models in evolutionary cytogenetics. However, most available cytogenetic data are limited to the description of the chromosome number and morphology. Concerning sex chromosomes, our knowledge is limited to ZZ/ZW and Z1Z1Z2Z2/Z1Z2W systems in the genus Furcifer and the isolation of sex-linked, male-specific, sequences in Chamaeleo calyptratus, but the putative XY chromosomes have still to be identified in Chamaeleo and the conservation of male heterogamety in the genus needs confirmation from other species. In this study we performed a molecular and a cytogenetic analysis on C. chamaeleon, using standard, banding methods and molecular cytogenetics to provide a throughout karyological characterization of the species and to identify and locate the putative XY chromosomes. We confirm that the chromosome formula of the species is 2n = 24, with 12 metacentric macrochromosomes, 12 microchromosomes and NORs on the second chromosome pair. Heterochromatin was detected as weak C-bands on centromeric regions, differently from what was previously reported for C. calyptratus. Fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) showed the occurrence of interspersed telomeric signals on most macrochromosomes, suggesting that ancient chromosome fusions may have led to a reduction of the chromosome number. Using a combination of molecular and FISH analyses, we proved that male specific Restriction site-Associated DNA sequences (RADseq) isolated in C. calyptratus are conserved in C. chamaeleon and located the putative XY chromosomes on the second chromosome pair. We also identified different transposable elements in the focal taxa, which are highly interspersed on most chromosome pairs.

Published
2019

6. Non‐random accumulation of LINE1‐like sequences on differentiated snake W chromosomes

Author

Gaetano Odierna, V. Visone, Agnese Petraccioli, Fabio Maria Guarino, Marcello Mezzasalma, Teresa Capriglione, Mezzasalma, Marcello, Visone, Valeria, Petraccioli, Agnese, Odierna, Gaetano, Capriglione, Teresa, and Guarino, FABIO MARIA

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0106 biological sciences, 0301 basic medicine, Chromosome distribution, 010603 evolutionary biology, 01 natural sciences, 03 medical and health sciences, FISH, biology.animal, Hierophis, Colubridae, Elaphe, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Lamprophiidae, nLTR, Genetics, Genome, Autosome, biology, Chromosome localization, Lizard, LINE1, biology.organism_classification, W chromosome, 030104 developmental biology, Serpente, Animal Science and Zoology, Sex chromosome, Colubroid
Abstract

Due to their particular phylogenetic position and biological characteristics, squamate reptiles and, in particular, snakes are becoming an increasingly important model for fields such as evolutionary biology, molecular ecology and adaptation. Recently, during a study to analyze the evolutionary history of European whip snakes, we found a LINE1 (L1)-like sequence (GenBank accession no. LM644476), herein called TRL1L, and while there are data on the abundance of L1 in snakes, their genomic and chromosome localization is still largely unexplored. We therefore performed a study to obtain information on TRL1L abundance, distribution and conservation in snake species, belonging to the Colubridae, Lamprophiidae and Viperidae families, using quantitative dot-blot and fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH). TRL1L showed a high identity with homologous segments of L1s of lizards the Anolis carolinensis and Lacerta agilis and the zebrafish Danio rerio. The discovered sequences are truncated L1 elements which occur with a low copy number, about 0.1% of the genome of the species studied. This evidence suggests that L1 retroposons have a similar landscape in lizard and snake genomes, probably because similar processes limited L1 distribution in their genomes. TRL1L showed a non-random chromosome distribution pattern. It was scarcely located on autosomes and on the euchromatic W chromosome of Cerastes vipera, while mostly found on the heterochromatic W chromosome of Hierophis carbonarius and Elaphe quatuorlineata. Our data support the hypothesis that a ‘purifying selection’ against the accumulation of L1 elements takes place in recombining regions and highlight the possible role of these elements in the differentiation processes of the snake heterochromatic W chromosome. Interestingly, the preferential distribution of TRL1L on the heterochromatic W chromosomes of the studied snakes appears to be similar to that observed in mammals for L1 accumulation on differentiated Y chromosomes. This finding suggests that a convergent process may have taken place in the differentiation of vertebrate heterochromatic sex chromosomes

Published
2016

7. A sisters’ story: comparative phylogeography and taxonomy ofHierophis viridiflavusandH. gemonensis(Serpentes, Colubridae)

Author

Fabio Maria Guarino, Marco A. L. Zuffi, Marcello Mezzasalma, Petros Lymberakis, Gaetano Odierna, Anna Loy, Ljiljana Tomović, Andrea Dall'Asta, Marc Cheylan, Mezzasalma, Marcello, Andrea, Dall'Asta, Anna, Loy, Marc, Cheylan, Petros, Lymberaki, Marco A. L., Zuffi, Ljiljana, Tomović, Odierna, Gaetano, and Guarino, FABIO MARIA

Subjects
0106 biological sciences, Animal Science and Zoology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Molecular Biology, Genetics, Evolution, Biogeography, 010607 zoology, Allopatric speciation, Zoology, Biology, 010603 evolutionary biology, 01 natural sciences, Monophyly, Behavior and Systematics, Sensu, glacial refugia, Clade, Genetic diversity, Ecology, historical biogeography, snakes, Phylogeography, Cladogenesis, speciation, parapatry
Abstract

We used a multidisciplinary approach to infer the taxonomy and historical biogeography of Hierophis viridiflavus and H. gemonensis, performing molecular analyses of mitochondrial (16S, Cyt-b, ND4) and nuclear markers (PRLR), a landmark-based morphometric study and a cytogenetic analysis. Our data distinguished three main groups in the studied species, corresponding to H. gemonensis and to two monophyletic clades (E and W) within H. viridiflavus. Clades E and W display a significant genetic (about 4% for Cyt-b and ND4) and morphological divergence and a different morphology of the W sex chromosome (submetacentric in clade E and telocentric in clade W). Taking into account the existing divergence, these clades appear to represent independent phylogenetic units, deserving elevation to species status. Specific names should be H. viridiflavus (Lacepede, 1789) and H. carbonarius (Bonaparte 1833) for clades W and E, respectively. The phylogeography of the studied species is only partially concordant with a general pattern of ‘southern richness and northern purity’ of genetic diversity, whereas H. gemonensis exhibits high genetic diversity at low latitudes (especially in the Peloponnese), H. carbonarius shows a number of different haplotypes both at low (along the southern Italian Apennines and in Sicily) and high latitudes in Italy. Furthermore, a relaxed clock model hypothesizes the differentiation between H. gemonensis and H. viridiflavus sensu lato at about 7 Mya, in the Messinian. Subsequently, the speciation involving H. viridiflavus sensu stricto and H. carbonarius took place in the Quaternary, probably as a result of Pleistocene climatic oscillations. Furthermore, our results are consistent with the existence of several ‘refugia within refugia’ in Italy and in the Balkans and depict the major cladogenesis as allopatric events, mainly driven by paleoclimatic and geographical factors.

Published
2015

8. Cold-blooded in the Ice Age: 'refugia within refugia', inter-and intraspecific biogeographic diversification of European whipsnakes (Squamata, Colubridae, Hierophis)

Author

Fabio Maria Guarino, Marcello Mezzasalma, Danilo Russo, Mirko Di Febbraro, Gaetano Odierna, Mezzasalma, Marcello, Di Febbraro, Mirko, Guarino, Fabio Maria, Odierna, Gaetano, and Russo, Danilo

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0106 biological sciences, 0301 basic medicine, Biogeography, Species distribution, Glacial refugia, 010603 evolutionary biology, 01 natural sciences, 03 medical and health sciences, Quaternary glaciation, Peninsula, Hierophis, Vicariance, Animals, Glacial period, Ecosystem, Phylogeny, geography, geography.geographical_feature_category, biology, Ecology, Ancestral distribution, Colubridae, Genetic Variation, Last Glacial Maximum, biology.organism_classification, Biological Evolution, Europe, Phylogeography, 030104 developmental biology, Biological dispersal, Serpente, Animal Science and Zoology
Abstract

In this work, we performed a biogeographic analysis with Bayesian binary MCMC (BBM) statistical dispersal-vicariance analysis (S-DIVA) and species distribution models (SDM) on three phylogenetically closely related Mediterranean whipsnakes (Hierophis gemonensis, H. carbonarius, H. viridiflavus), to investigate the pathways of their geographical diversification and locate putative refugial areas in the last glacial maximum (LGM). Our analysis suggests that the diversification processes between the studied species overall followed an east-west route, from eastern Greece to the Iberian Peninsula and continental France, highlighting a significant role of dispersal and vicariance processes at both inter- and intraspecific levels. In particular, the main lineage-splitting events between H. gemonensis, H. carbonarius and H. viridiflavus coincide with two events of vicariance, involving respectively eastern Greece and eastern Italy, and eastern Italy and western Italy, Iberian Peninsula and continental France. SDM analyses highlight the occurrence of multiple putative glacial refugia in the Balkans, Italy and southern France, which represent well the occurrence of distinct "refugia within refugia" in the main Mediterranean peninsulas. Furthermore, our results suggest how these refugia may have played an important role during the Quaternary climatic oscillations in shaping the current haplotype distribution of European whipsnakes. © 2018 Elsevier GmbH.

Published
2017

9. Molecular phylogeny, biogeography and chromosome evolution of Malagasy dwarf geckos of the genus Lygodactylus (Squamata, Gekkonidae)

Author

Gaetano Odierna, Fabio Maria Guarino, Marcello Mezzasalma, Gennaro Aprea, Franco Andreone, Frank Glaw, Mezzasalma, Marcello, Andreone, Franco, Aprea, Gennaro, Glaw, Frank, Odierna, Gaetano, and Guarino, FABIO MARIA

Subjects
0106 biological sciences, 0301 basic medicine, biology, Lineage (evolution), Zoology, biology.organism_classification, 010603 evolutionary biology, 01 natural sciences, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematic, 03 medical and health sciences, 030104 developmental biology, Sister group, Molecular phylogenetics, Lygodactylus, Vicariance, Genetics, Biological dispersal, Animal Science and Zoology, Clade, Molecular Biology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Gekkonidae
Abstract

We performed a phylogenetic analysis using nuclear (RAG-1, RAG-2) and mitochondrial (16S) markers, a statistical Bayesian reconstruction of ancestral distribution areas and a karyological analysis on most Malagasy species of the gekkonid genus Lygodactylus. The phylogenetic analysis largely confirms major basal branching pattern of previous molecular studies, but highlights significant differences concerning both the relationships between different species groups as well as those within groups. The biogeographic analysis supports a Malagasy origin of Lygodactylus, an oversea dispersal to continental Africa and a return to Madagascar. The L. madagascariensis group (also including a new candidate species identified herein) is the most basal clade in Lygodactylus, and the sister group of a clade with all the remaining species. The second most basal clade is the L. verticillatus group, placed as the sister group of a clade comprising African and Malagasy species. The sister lineage of the L. verticillatus group originated the African radiation through an oversea dispersal out of Madagascar. Eventually, the sister lineage of the L. capensis group originated secondary dispersals from Africa to Madagascar. In Madagascar, lineage diversification in different species groups mainly occurred from southern to northern and eastern regions. Dispersal, vicariance and paleoclimatic refugia probably played a relevant role in the evolutionary history of closely related taxa and in speciation mechanisms. The cytogenetic analysis evidenced a high karyotypic variability in Lygodactylus (from 2n = 34 to 2n = 40), which is at least partly consistent with the phylogenetic relationships and the composition of the various species group. Chromosome evolution occurred independently in different lineages, mainly through a reduction in the chromosome number and starting from a putative primitive karyotype of 2n = 40 with all telocentric elements.

Published
2017

10. Recovery and amplification of ancient DNA from herculaneum victims killed by the 79 AD vesuvius hot surges

Author

Vincenzo Graziano, Gaetano Odierna, Marcello Mezzasalma, Pierpaolo Petrone, Mariano Paternoster, Fabio Maria Guarino, Claudio Buccelli, Pietro La Porta, Guarino, FABIO MARIA, Buccelli, Claudio, Graziano, Vincenzo, La Porta, Pietro, Mezzasalma, Marcello, Odierna, Gaetano, Paternoster, Mariano, and Petrone, Pierpaolo

Subjects
0106 biological sciences, 0301 basic medicine, 79 AD eruption of vesuviu, Physiology, Human bone, Context (language use), Biology, 010603 evolutionary biology, 01 natural sciences, Microbiology, law.invention, 03 medical and health sciences, chemistry.chemical_compound, DNA amplification, Genetic, law, Ancient DNA,DNA amplification,archaeological bones,79 AD eruption of Vesuvius,Herculaneum, Genetics, Herculaneum, AMELX, Molecular Biology, Polymerase chain reaction, Archaeological bone, Ancient DNA, Cell Biology, Molecular biology, 030104 developmental biology, chemistry, Agricultural and Biological Sciences (all), Primer (molecular biology), Amelogenin, General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, DNA
Abstract

n thermally damaged archaeological bones the quantity, quality, and amplifiability of DNA are very much reliant on both the extent of heating and the environmental conditions of the burial context. In this study we tested the possibility of extracting and amplifying ancient DNA from human bone remains of Herculaneum victims of the 79 AD eruption of Vesuvius using a combination of histochemical and molecular methods. Long bone samples with variable degrees of chromatic and morphological alterations consistent with exposure to temperatures of about 300 °C were taken from four specimens. Using histochemical stains, bone cryostat sections from three individuals revealed DNA within osteocyte lacunae but only for one sample the DNA was suitable for PCR amplification obtained, namely from reactions with the primer pair for X and Y amelogenin (AMEL) loci. The relative sequence differed from the homologous trait of AMELX deposited in GenBank for six bases, probably due to degradation processes following death. Our data are indicative that archaeological bones exposed to high temperatures of about 300 °C should be considered for DNA analysis, given the favorable conditions of corpse burial and skeleton preservation, such as those that occurred for the 79 AD victims in Herculaneum and Pompeii.

Published
2017

11. Photography-based taxonomy is inadequate, unnecessary, and potentially harmful for biological sciences

Author

Fenton P.D. Cotterill, Fernanda P. Werneck, Stephen W. Chordas, Enrique González-Soriano, Pierangelo Luporini, Santiago Claramunt, Santosh Kumar, Adriano B. Kury, Marcelo José Sturaro, Atsushi Tominaga, Marcos Gonçalves Lhano, Giulio Cuccodoro, Bernardo F. Santos, Alejandro Oceguera-Figueroa, Klaus Henle, Giovanni B. Delmastro, Thibaut Delsinne, Jeremy A. Miller, Thomas Ziegler, Ishan Agarwal, Rodrigo M. Feitosa, Robert C. Glotzhober, Giuliano Doria, Adeline Soulier-Perkins, Diego Baldo, Valéria da Cunha Tavares, Danilo Pacheco Cordeiro, Eli Greenbaum, Carlos Alberto Santos de Lucena, Stuart V. Nielsen, Jörn Köhler, Fernando Pacheco Rodrigues, Justin C. Bagley, Shun Ichiro Naomi, Gustavo Hormiga, Geoffrey Odhiambo Ong'ondo, Aurélien Miralles, Alexandre Uarth Christoff, Florian M. Steiner, Matthias Glaubrecht, Victor Van Cakenberghe, Wolfgang Rabitsch, Jack W. Sites, Norma J. Salcedo, Mario Alberto Cozzuol, Ward C. Wheeler, Krister T. Smith, Brian Tilston Smith, Ignacio Jose De La Riva De La Viña, Leo J. Borkin, Ângelo Parise Pinto, Marivene R. Manuel-Santos, Ana Carolina Pavan, M. J. Alves, Dan Cogălniceanu, Luciana F. Santoferrara, James M. Carpenter, Thierry Deuve De Resbecq, Beat Schätti, Jean Pierre Vacher, John G. Day, Ray C. Schmidt, Otto M. P. Oliveira, Lázaro Guevara, Jean-Lou Justine, Karthikeyan Vasudevan, Donat Agosti, Cécile Mourer-Chauviré, Brett C. Ratcliffe, Birgit C. Schlick-Steiner, Sebastian Kvist, Nathan K. Lujan, Robert Alexander Pyron, Rosana M. Rocha, Roberto Poggi, José A. Langone, Larry Lee Grismer, Václav Gvoždík, Natsuhiko Yoshikawa, Thaís P. Miranda, Elizabeth Prendini, Abel Pérez-González, Katharina C. Wollenberg Valero, Jean-Yves Rasplus, Cristiano R. Moreira, Antonietta La Terza, Fabio Siqueira Pitaluga de Godoi, Michael W. Holmes, Thomas E. Lacher, Ronald H. Pine, Matthew P. Heinicke, Steven M. Goodman, John D. Lynch, Elöd Kondorosy, Anderson Feijó, Orfeo Picariello, Wolfgang Denzer, Stefano Valdesalici, Aléssio Datovo, Jean Pierre Hugot, Yuri L. R. Leite, Heinz Grillitsch, Hernán Ortega, Dimitri Forero, Jean Carlos Santos, Marie Claude Durette-Desset, Victor H. Gonzalez, Mrugank Prabhu, Walter E. Schargel, Beate Röll, Caleb D. McMahan, Mitsuru Kuramoto, Edson A. Adriano, Jérôme Constant, Richard Laval, María A. Mendoza-Becerril, Cédric d'Udekem d'Acoz, Alain Didier Missoup, Frank Tillack, Janet K. Braun, Lindsey Swierk, André L. Netto-Ferreira, Xiaofeng Lin, Karl Heinz Jungfer, Fabio Di Dario, Vanessa Kruth Verdade, Pavel Štys, Franco Andreone, Andrés A. Ojanguren-Affilastro, Manuel Ruedi, Didier Van den Spiegel, Rahul Khot, Lars Krogmann, Lance Grande, Robert C. Drewes, Luis M. P. Ceríaco, Jeffrey W. Streicher, Jacob A. Esselstyn, Josiah H. Townsend, Wolfgang Arthofer, Wiesław Bogdanowicz, Marcos A. Raposo, Omar Torres-Carvajal, Dirk Ahrens, Theo Blick, Carlos DoNascimiento, Eric Drouet, Claudia Patricia Ornelas-García, Gervásio Silva Carvalho, Zachary H. Falin, Gaetano Odierna, Michael Maia Mincarone, Sabine Agatha, Christian De Muizon, Célio F. B. Haddad, Pablo Rodrigues Gonçalves, Maarten P.M. Vanhove, Ronald Janssen, Ulrich Burkhardt, Bernard Landry, Paúl M. Velazco, Melanie L. J. Stiassny, Erna Aescht, Sarah Siqueira Oliveira, Koshiro Eto, Thomas van de Kamp, Fabio Cianferoni, Leonardo Ferreira Machado, Luiz Carlos Pinho, Dennis Rödder, Fábio Raposo do Amaral, Shan Gao, Paulo Passos, Nikolai L. Orlov, Emanuel Tschopp, Bert Van Bocxlaer, Roman Hołyński, Isabella Van De Velde, Indraneil Das, Luciano Damián Patitucci, Daniel J. Bennett, Annemarie Ohler, Rachunliu G. Kamei, Patrick Grootaert, Tony Robillard, Jun Gong, Massimo Delfino, Antonio C. Marques, Daizy Bharti, Ira Richling, José L. O. Birindelli, Thiago Borges Fernandes Semedo, Philippe Grandcolas, Eric J. 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0106 biological sciences, [SDV]Life Sciences [q-bio], Rebuttal, 010607 zoology, Biology, [SDV.BID.SPT]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Biodiversity/Systematics, Phylogenetics and taxonomy, Q1, 010603 evolutionary biology, 01 natural sciences, Biological Science Disciplines, FOTOGRAFIA, Photography, Animals, Animal species, Biological sciences, QH426, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS, Taxonomy, QL, [ SDV ] Life Sciences [q-bio], Ecology, [SDV.BA]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Animal biology, Biodiversity, Classification, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematic, Taxonomy (biology), Animal Science and Zoology, Classics
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2016

12. A karyological study of three typhlopid species with some inferences on chromosome evolution in blindsnakes (Scolecophidia)

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Gaetano Odierna, Agnese Petraccioli, Fabio Maria Guarino, Frank Glaw, Franco Andreone, Marcello Mezzasalma, Mezzasalma, Marcello, Andreone, Franco, Glaw, Frank, Petraccioli, Agnese, Odierna, Gaetano, and Guarino, FABIO MARIA

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0106 biological sciences, Indotyphlops braminus, Scolecophidia, biology, Phylogenetic tree, 010607 zoology, Chromosome, Zoology, Karyotype, Chromosomal translocation, biology.organism_classification, 010603 evolutionary biology, 01 natural sciences, Typhlopidae, Microchromosome, Animal Science and Zoology, Blindsnakes, Scolecophidia, Typhlopidae, Karyotype, Chromosome evolution
Abstract

Blindsnakes are poorly studied reptiles from the karyological point of view since chromosomal data are only known for eight out of more than 420 species. The present paper shows the results of a karyological study conducted by means of standard and banding staining (Ag-NOR-banding and C-banding plus CMA and DAPI fluorochromes) on three typhlopid species, Madatyphlops arenarius, Xerotyphlops vermicularis and the parthenogenetic blindsnake, Indotyphlops braminus . Madatyphlops arenarius has conserved the primitive snake karyotype of 2n = 36 with 16 biarmed macro- and 20 microchromosomes and NORs on a microchromosome pair. The karyotype of X . vermicularis differed in showing a reduced number of microchromosomes (16) and NORs on the long arms of the third macrochromosome pair. The parthenogenetic I . braminus exhibited a triploid karyotype of 3n = 42 with seven macro- and seven microtriplets and NORs on a microtriplet. Comparison with chromosome data from the available literature suggests that the primitive snake karyotype of 2n = 36 occurred in the common ancestor of Leptotyphlopidae + Typhlopidae and in the common ancestor of Typhlopidae. In the latter family chromosome evolution may well have proceeded towards a decrease in the chromosome number from 2n = 36, 34, 32 until it reached 2n = 28, mainly involving micro- to microchromosome and/or macrochromosome translocations. Furthermore, these chromosome rearrangements occurred independently and repeatedly in the different evolutionary lineages of this family and are partially concordant with phylogenetic relationships. Cytologically identifiable sex chromosomes were not revealed by either standard or C-banding staining.

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2016

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