Karyotype and chromosome localization of nucleolar organizer region in wild leopard coraltrout Plectropomus leopardus from Hainan GAO Ning, CAI Yan, ZHOU Yong-can, LI Gen-lang, YUAN Wei,
LIU Hai-tian, XIE Zhen-yu, WANG Shi-feng
State Key Laboratory Breeding Base for Sustainable Exploitation of Tropical Bioresources, Key Laboratory of Aquatic Biological Technology of Hainan Province, Hainan University, Haikou 570228, China
Abstract: The karyotypic and Ag-NORs patterns were investigated in chromosomes of head kidneys of wild leopard coraltrout Plectropomus leopardus collected from Hainan in vivo treated with phytohemagglutinin (PHA) and colchicines and by Giemsa and Ag-NORs staining techniques. The results showed that leopard coraltrout had karyotypic formula of 2n=2st(t)+46t, and NF=48, and one pair of NORs on the long arm of pair No.1.