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A comparative karyological study of the blue-breasted quail (<i>Coturnix chinensis</i>, Phasianidae) and California quail (<i>Callipepla californica</i>, Odontophoridae)

2004; Karger Publishers; Volume: 106; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1159/000078569

1424-8581

Mami Shibusawa, Chizuko Nishida‐Umehara, Masaoki Tsudzuki, Julio Masabanda, D.K. Griffin, Yoichi Matsuda,

Genetic diversity and population structure

We conducted comparative chromosome painting and chromosome mapping with chicken DNA probes against the blue-breasted quail (Coturnix chinensis, CCH) and California quail (Callipepla californica, CCA), which are classified into the Old World quail and the New World quail, respectively. Each chicken probe of chromosomes 1-9 and Z painted a pair of chromosomes in the blue-breasted quail. In California quail, chicken chromosome 2 probe painted chromosomes 3 and 6, and chicken chromosome 4 probe painted chromosomes 4 and a pair of microchromosomes. Comparison of the cytogenetic maps of the two quail species with those of chicken and Japanese quail revealed that there are several intrachromosomal rearrangements, pericentric and/or paracentric inversions, in chromosomes 1, 2 and 4 between chicken and the Old World quail. In addition, a pericentric inversion was found in chromosome 8 between chicken and the three quail species. Ordering of the Z-linked DNA clones revealed the presence of multiple rearrangements in the Z chromosomes of the three quail species. Comparing these results with the molecular phylogeny of Galliformes species, it was also cytogenetically supported that the New World quail is classified into a different clade from the lineage containing chicken and the Old World quail.