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The stick insects Bacillus rossius-grandii benazzii and B. rossius-grandii grandii naturally reproduce by hybridogenesis and androgenesis. The hybrid karyotype of the former (2n=35, XX female; 34, X0 male) clearly sums up a B. rossius haploset (r) with n=18 and a B. grandii benazzii one (gb) with n=17. The two sets keep the parental features for C-heterochromatin amount (much larger in the gb complement) and satellites/NORs (nuclear organizer regions) (more numerous and variably located in the r set); hybridogenetically produced males always show severely impaired gametogenesis and are therefore sterile, whereas hybridogenetic females are fertile. Reproductive, karyological and cytogenetical properties of the hybridogenetic system have been exploited to obtain the chromosomal evidence of whole haploset exchanges. In progenies obtained by crossing B. rossiusgrandii benazzii females to B. rossius males with either standard or repatterned (with Robertsonian fusions) karyotypes, there has always been complete agreement between electrophoretically genotyped and karyologically analyzed hybridogenetic offspring: the unassorted maternal r haploset (r m) is transmitted and the gb m haploset replaced by that of the fathering male (r p), thus evidencing the hemiclonal reproduction and the new r m-r p chromosomal constitution. New karyotype traits of the offspring relate to chromosome number (2n=36, female; 35, male), C-heterochromatin pattern (the heterochromatin-rich gb haploset completely disappears) and satellite/NOR features (corresponding to r m plus r p locations). The same crosses also produce genetically and chromosomally all-paternal descendants (androgenetics), of both sexes and fully fertile, with an r p r p structure. These androgenetic progeny show segregation for alleles and chromosomes at which fathering males are heterozygous: it was therefore possible to demonstrate that androgenetics can derive from syngamy of two sperm nuclei, of the several present in the polyspermic hybridogenetic egg. The production of androgenetics from field fertilized females of B. rossius-grandii benazzii, B. rossius-grandii grandii and parthenogenetic Bacillus whitei (=B. rossius/grandii grandii) suggests the occurrence of unsuspected relationships between hybrids and their parental species, so that the hybrids cannot be simply considered as ‘sexual parasites’. Furthermore, there is a suggestion of evolution of parthenogenetic clonal species from selection of initially hybridogenetic strains. The ability to produce uniparental progeny naturally from the spermatic genome may open a new field of investigation on genomic imprinting.
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Tinti, F., Scali, V. Chromosomal evidence of hemiclonal and all-paternal offspring production in Bacillus rossius-grandii benazzii (Insecta Phasmatodea). Chromosoma 102, 403–414 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00360405
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