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CROSSING EXPERIMENTS DETECT GENETIC INCOMPATIBILITY AMONG POPULATIONS OF TRIATOMA BRASILIENSIS NEIVA, 1911 (HETEROPTERA, REDUVIIDAE, TRIATOMINAE)
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Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Instituto Oswaldo Cruz. Departamento de Entomologia. Núcleo de Informatização, Coleção Entomológica. Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil / EID, APHL.
Universidade de Barra Mansa. Museu de Ciências. Núcleo Avançado de Estudos de Vetores e Artrópodes Peçonhentos. Barra Mansa, RJ, Brasil.
Institute de Recherches pour le Développement. Paris, France.
Entomology Branch, Division of Parasitic Disease. CDC. Atlanta, GA, USA.
Universidade de Barra Mansa. Museu de Ciências. Núcleo Avançado de Estudos de Vetores e Artrópodes Peçonhentos. Barra Mansa, RJ, Brasil.
Institute de Recherches pour le Développement. Paris, France.
Entomology Branch, Division of Parasitic Disease. CDC. Atlanta, GA, USA.
Abstract
Triatoma brasiliensis is composed of at least four geographic populations (brasiliensis, melanica, macromelasoma,
and juazeiro) that have distinct chromatic, morphologic, biologic and ecologic patterns, and genetic composition.
Reciprocal crosses between all pairwise combinations were carried out in order to evaluate the genetic and reproductive compatibility of these four populations. The F1 individuals developed normally and the resulting adults
were crossed again to test the F2 and F3 viability. Genetic incompatibility was found between melanica and
brasiliensis populations.
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