Abstract
AbstractA total of 32 populations and egg mass isolates of Meloidogyne hapla obtained from various geographical areas were studied cytologically and with respect to their mode of reproduction. In 29, maturation of oocytes is by regular meiosis. The reduced chromosome number at metaphase I is 17 in 18 populations, 16 in 8, and 15 in 3 populations. Reproduction in all these populations is by cross‐fertilization, although nonfertilized eggs can develop by parthenogenesis. In the latter case, the two groups of telophase chromosomes of the second maturation division become enclosed in the same pronucleus, thus reestablishing the somatic chromosome number. Maturation of spermatocytes in three populations studied is by regular meiosis and the reduced chromosome number appears to be equal to that of the oocytes. In the remaining three populations, no synapsis takes place and the somatic number of 45 chromosomes is observed at metaphase of the single maturation division of both oocytes and spermatocytes. Reproduction is by obligatory mitotic parthenogensis. It is postulated that the basic chromosome number for the genus is nine and that the facultatively parthenogenetic populations are tetraploid, whereas, the obligatorily parthenogenetic populations are pentaploid. A preliminary scheme of the phylogeny in the family Heteroderidae is given.
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