KARYOTYPE OF ACOMYS-CILICICUS SPITZENBERGER, 1978 (RODENTIA, MURIDAE)

Citation
M. Macholan et al., KARYOTYPE OF ACOMYS-CILICICUS SPITZENBERGER, 1978 (RODENTIA, MURIDAE), Mammalia, 59(3), 1995, pp. 397-402
Citations number
21
Categorie Soggetti
Zoology
Journal title
ISSN journal
00251461
Volume
59
Issue
3
Year of publication
1995
Pages
397 - 402
Database
ISI
SICI code
0025-1461(1995)59:3<397:KOAS1(>2.0.ZU;2-I
Abstract
A first description of the karyotype of Acomys cilicicus from a site i n close proximity to the type locality is presented. The diploid numbe r was found to equal 36. The karyotype consists of 16 pairs of meta-/s ubmetacentric and one pair of acrocentric autosomes (NFa=66). The X ch romosome is large and subtelocentric whereas the Y is the smallest ele ment in the set and acrocentric. C-banding revealed that the short arm of the X is wholly heterochromatic and is likely to have resulted fro m amplification of a centrometic heterochromatin segment. Karyosystema tic relations of A. cilicicus to other members of the cahirinus-dimidi atus group are discussed.