TY - JOUR T1 - Chromosome Painting in Three Species of Buteoninae: A Cytogenetic Signature Reinforces the Monophyly of South American Species A1 - de Oliveira, Edivaldo Herculano C. A1 - Tagliarini, Marcella Mergulhão A1 - dos Santos, Michelly S. A1 - O'Brien, Patricia C. M. A1 - Ferguson-Smith, Malcolm A. Y1 - 2013/07/26 N2 - Buteoninae (Falconiformes, Accipitridae) consist of the widely distributed genus Buteo, and several closely related species in a group called “sub-buteonine hawks”, such as Buteogallus, Parabuteo, Asturina, Leucopternis and Busarellus, with unsolved phylogenetic relationships. Diploid number ranges between 2n = 66 and 2n = 68. Only one species, L. albicollis had its karyotype analyzed by molecular cytogenetics. The aim of this study was to present chromosomal analysis of three species of Buteoninae: Rupornis magnirostris, Asturina nitida and Buteogallus meridionallis using fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) experiments with telomeric and rDNA probes, as well as whole chromosome probes derived from Gallus gallus and Leucopternis albicollis. The three species analyzed herein showed similar karyotypes, with 2n = 68. Telomeric probes showed some interstitial telomeric sequences, which could be resulted by fusion processes occurred in the chromosomal evolution of the group, including the one found in the tassociation GGA1p/GGA6. In fact, this association was observed in all the three species analyzed in this paper, and also in L. albicollis, suggesting that it represents a cytogenetic signature which reinforces the monophyly of Neotropical buteoninae species. JF - PLOS ONE JA - PLOS ONE VL - 8 IS - 7 UR - https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0070071 SP - e70071 EP - PB - Public Library of Science M3 - doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0070071 ER -