Karyological and bioinformatic data on the common chameleon Chamaeleo chamaeleon

Marwa Sidhom; Khaled Said; Noureddine Chatti; Fabio M Guarino; Gaetano Odierna; Agnese Petraccioli; Orfeo Picariello; Marcello Mezzasalma

doi:10.1016/j.dib.2020.105640

Karyological and bioinformatic data on the common chameleon Chamaeleo chamaeleon

Data Brief. 2020 Apr 30:30:105640. doi: 10.1016/j.dib.2020.105640. eCollection 2020 Jun.

Authors

Marwa Sidhom¹, Khaled Said¹, Noureddine Chatti¹, Fabio M Guarino², Gaetano Odierna², Agnese Petraccioli², Orfeo Picariello², Marcello Mezzasalma^{2

3}

Affiliations

¹ Laboratoire de Génétique, Biodiversité et Valorisation des Bioressources, Institut Supérieur de Biotechnologie de Monastir, Université de Monastir, Avenue Taher Hadded (B.P 74) Monastir 5000, Tunisie.
² Dipartimento di Biologia, Università di Napoli Federico II, Via Cinthia 26, 80126 Napoli, Italy.
³ Department of Life Sciences, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London, SW7 5BD, UK.

Abstract

The data presented in this paper stand as supplementary information of the associated article "Karyological characterization of the common chameleon (Chamaeleo chamaeleon) provides insights on the evolution and diversification of sex chromosomes in Chamaeleonidae" [1]. This work provides (i) raw experimental data on the karyology of the common chameleon Chamaeleo chamaeleon and (ii) the results of bioinformatic analysis on sex-specific and repeated DNA sequences found in the same species. The karyological information here presented includes traditional staining method (Giemsa staining) and sequential C-banding + fluorochromes performed on Tunisian samples of the species. The sequence data include the alignments of the isolated DNA sequences with homologous sequences found in squamate Short Read Archives (SRAs) and the results of searches in public nucleic acid databases.

Keywords: C-banding; Chameleons; DNA; Karyotype; Reptiles.