| updated checklist of balearic leaf beetles (coleoptera: chrysomelidae). | the first updated checklist of balearic leaf beetles (chrysomelidae) since 1960 is presented here, evincing the presence of 118 species. this estimation is clearly lower than the 141 species reported in the only list available to date (jolivet, 1953), and the dissimilarity is even more pronounced if we take into account that 22 new species have been added during this period. the possible explanations for these differences are discussed. the main island in the archipelago holds most of the specie ... | 2017 | 28610289 |
| tcagg, an alternative telomeric sequence in insects. | the ttagg repeat, the only determined telomerase-dependent sequence in the insecta, is generally reputed to be the canonical telomeric motif within the class. by studying the distribution of telomeric dnas in 30 coleopteran beetles using southern hybridization, bal 31 dna end-degradation assay and fluorescence in situ hybridization, we showed that arrays built of a tcagg repeat substitute for (ttagg)n sequences in all tested species within the superfamily tenebrionoidea. we also provided the exp ... | 2011 | 21499744 |