Abstract:
Biochemical genetic investigation and cytometric analysis from diploid-polyploid spined loaches
associations of lower reaches of the rivers of Danube, Dniester, and Dnieper found substantial
distinctions of their genetic structure and, consequently, certain historical isolations and, in
case with Dniester, the uniqueness of the population consisting exceptionally of individuals of
hybrid polyploid biotypes. Thus, in all basins, polyploid specimens only of the Danube origin
are found. Diploid species of Danube (C. elongatoides, С. Чапаіііса") have not contained
introgressive genes and have autochthonous origin, while the diploid form predominating in
lower Dnieper basin has genes not less than three allospecies of С (superspecies) taenia with
predominance of genes of C. (taenia) taenia and, consequently, has adventure nature de bene
esse.