A Preliminary Report on the Phylogeny of Five Balistid Fish in Terms of Several Chromosome Banding Techniques in Combination with a Statistical Analysis

Abstract

Intervening C-band positive-G-band negative regions were observed just adjacent to the secondary constrictions on the largest acrocentric chromosome pair of Odonus niger and Meliehthys vidua, which intensely indicate the occurrence of tandem translocation event. Since the karyotypes of the five balistid fish studied comprised solely acrocentrics, the karyotypic changes by the tandem translocation could be used to precisely analyse their phyletic genetic evolution.