Karyomorphology of some Quercus L. species from section Quercus and Cerris in Turkey

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Table 1. Species, sections and localities of studied species.

Species	Section	Locations
Q. hartwissiana	Quercus	Bursa-Yalova/Güney village
Q. frainetto	Quercus	Bursa-Yalova/Güney village
Q. macranthera subsp. syspirensis	Quercus	Abant-Mudurnu/Bolu
Q. virgiliana	Quercus	Abant lake/Bolu
Q. trojana	Cerris	Uşak University/1 Eylül Campus/Uşak

Table 2. Species, somatic chromosome numbers, karyotypic descriptions and other morphometric parameters of studied Quercus taxa.

	Somatic chromosome number	Karyotypic description	Length range (µm)	Haploid complement (µm)	A1	A2
Species
Section: Quercus
Q. hartwissiana	2n = 24	22m +2sm	(0.85–1.83)	15.22	0.22	0.23
Q. frainetto	2n = 24	22m+2sm	(0.76–1.80)	14.50	0.25	0.24
Q. macranthera subsp. syspirensis	2n = 24	22m +2sm	(0.88–1.99)	16.04	0.22	0.21
Q. virgiliana	2n = 24	24m	(0.85–2.16)	15.84	0.22	0.27
Section: Cerris
Q. trojana	2n = 24	14m+10sm	(2.29–6.65)	49.62	0.28	0.30

Table 3. Species, somatic chromosome numbers, karyotypic descriptions and other morphometric parameters of previous analyses on the Turkish Quercus taxa.

	Somatic chromosome number	Karyotypic description	Length range (µm)	Haploid complement (µm)	A1	A2
Species
Section: Ilex
Q. coccifera	2n = 24	24m	(0.80–1.98)	14.61	0.19	0.27
Q. ilex	2n = 24	24m	(1.07–2.05)	17.47	0.21	0.20
Q. aucheri	2n = 24	24m	(1.12–2.56)	19.76	0.22	0.24
Section: Cerris
Q. cerris	2n = 24	24m	(0.99–2.11)	17.33	0.18	0.23
Q. ithaburensis	2n = 24	24m	(0.90–2.06)	15.66	0.17	.28
Q. libani	2n = 24	24m.	(0.81–2.18)	16.53	0.19	0.29
Section: Quercus
Q. petraea subsp. iberica	2n = 24	24m	(0.86–1.66)	14.33	0.15	0.19
Q. infectoria subsp. infectoria	2n = 24	24m	(0.91–1.96)	16.17	0.22
Q. infectoria subsp. boissieri	2n = 24	24m	(1.02–2.35)	17.89	0.21	0.24
Q. pubescens	2n = 24	24m	(1.01–2.01)	16.89	0.19	0.21
Q. robur	2n = 24	24m	(1.75–3.92)	31.78	0.22	0.22
Q. vulcanica	2n = 24	24m	(1.25–3.13)	22.63	0.18	0.28

Figure 1. Somatic chromosomes of (a) Q. hartwissiana; (b) Q. frainetto; (c) Q. macranthera subsp. syspirensis; (d) Q. virgiliana; (e) Q. trojana.

Figure 2. Idiograms of (a) Q. hartwissiana; (b) Q. frainetto; (c) Q. macranthera subsp. syspirensis; (d) Q. virgiliana; (e) Q. trojana. (Bar : 1 µm).