Mosquito populations give a new insight into the role of Caucasus in evolution

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Tagged biodiversity, biogeography, Caucasus, chromosomes, cytogenetics, Diptera, entomology, evolution, genetics, karyotype, larvae, mosquitoes, taxonomyLeave a comment

August 6, 2018

We know that the Caucasus is a relatively large mountainous region, situated between Black and the Caspian seas. In its turn, it is divided into three subregions: Ciscaucasia, Greater Caucasus and Transcaucasia, also known as South Caucasus. A closer look into the chromosome structure of mosquito larvae of a curious group of species (Chironomus “annularius” sensu Strenzke (1959)), […]

New butterfly species discovered in Russia with an unusual set of 46 chromosomes

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Tagged Azerbaijani blue, butterflies, chromosomes, genetics, genome, Lepidoptera, new butterfly, new speciesLeave a comment

November 27, 2017

What looked like a population of a common butterfly species turned out to be a whole new organism, and, moreover – one with a very peculiar genome organisation. Discovered by Vladimir Lukhtanov, entomologist and evolutionary biologist at the Zoological Institute in St. Petersburg, Russia, and Alexander Dantchenko, entomologist and chemist at the Moscow State University, the startling discovery was named […]