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<emphasis id="3B4BBD7655388621897397DD8E4E6DD8" italics="true" pageNumber="1410">Mus (Mus) terricolor</emphasis>
Blyth 1851
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<emphasis id="1E0C217C073DEAFC1EEC283A80E9F81F" italics="true" pageNumber="1410">Mus (Mus) terricolor</emphasis>
Blyth 1851
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,
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.
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<emphasis id="74A1233D6C7EA8261DDA76B3CD36A6B3" inLineHeading="true" pageNumber="1410">Type Locality:</emphasis>
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S
<collectingCountry id="922F6B1DC27DEC092D33F371BA00F274" name="India">India</collectingCountry>
, Bengal, neighborhood of Calcutta.
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<emphasis id="1ED48CB33075C05A911E70A62AB62B68" inLineHeading="true" pageNumber="1410">Vernacular Names:</emphasis>
<vernacularName id="3D1F447632321F30CF0DF70200F16FBA" language="eng" pageNumber="1410">Earth-Colored mouse</vernacularName>
.
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<paragraph id="B2A0974C4579D7610E2A6B5B590A1CEE" pageNumber="1410">
<emphasis id="148B1EC4C519C64D29BFBBB2F9F4005E" inLineHeading="true" pageNumber="1410">Synonyms:</emphasis>
<taxonomicName id="61E2367A15A0AE593973791CF5242239" authority="Peters 1866" authorityName="Peters" authorityYear="1866" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Mus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageNumber="1410" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="beavanii" subGenus="Mus">
<emphasis id="B4E102E4E38DDA9466BB219014838107" italics="true" pageNumber="1410">Mus (Mus) beavanii</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="789B35491D373231ADB2CE3E4494002C" author="Peters, W." refId="ref282188" refString="Peters, W. 1866. Uber neue oder ungengend bekannte Flederthiere (Vampyrops, Uroderma, Chiroderma, Ametrida, Tylostoma, Vespertilio, Vesperugo) und Nager (Tylomys, Lasiomys). Monatsberichte der Koniglich Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin, 1867: 392 411, 2 pls." year="1866">Peters 1866</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
;
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<emphasis id="1E2ABACE9170BB321428F29B92A4229E" italics="true" pageNumber="1410">Mus (Mus) dunni</emphasis>
Wroughton 1912
</taxonomicName>
.
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<paragraph id="90B13F55592A7E8C35B0D9FAD36615C3" pageNumber="1410">
<emphasis id="BA9387869D6271B57E5D01C12147EC7D" inLineHeading="true" pageNumber="1410">Distribution:</emphasis>
Indigenous to peninsular
<collectingCountry id="82FEF71B9F0DB6E583D0904EEB2128BD" name="India">India</collectingCountry>
and
<collectingCountry id="74D5615F620E65F52ED7632F206E3BF7" name="Nepal">Nepal</collectingCountry>
(J.
<collectionCode id="9020921B586523EFBBB1AEB785D63894" name="Tavera, Department of Geology and Geophysics">T</collectionCode>
. Marshall, Jr., 1998),
<collectingCountry id="76664605CDE594DCAB0B9BFBDD4B7154" name="Bangladesh">Bangladesh</collectingCountry>
(Comilla District,
<collectingCountry id="F1479257C420A9E749CC414BB2266F6F" name="Bangladesh">Chittagong</collectingCountry>
Province; Alpin et al., 2003
<emphasis id="2A26FDCEBE6C56FCD4D88914BCA963EB" italics="true" pageNumber="1410">c</emphasis>
; K. Alpin, in litt., 2004), and
<collectingCountry id="0856D1EAB4307778599620D858591731" name="Pakistan">Pakistan</collectingCountry>
(J.
<collectionCode id="BD21B55293C954561C759871B60B42D9" name="Tavera, Department of Geology and Geophysics">T</collectionCode>
. Marshall, Jr., 1998); occurs also in Medan region of N
<collectingRegion id="2BBB1B82F6A0A2BCB3DD1C73D214EA89" country="Indonesia" name="Sumatera Utara">Sumatra</collectingRegion>
(
<collectingCountry id="124783E00801C3F0ADE3D0BFEB8E9421" name="Indonesia">Indonesia</collectingCountry>
) where it was probably inadvertently introduced (
<bibRefCitation id="235A88FAD7FDBC1291788257E801C1DC" author="Musser, G. G. &amp; C. Newcomb" refId="ref252768" refString="Musser, G. G., and C. Newcomb. 1983. Malaysian murids and the giant rat of Sumatra. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 174: 327 - 598." year="1983">Musser and Newcomb, 1983</bibRefCitation>
, recorded as
<taxonomicName id="5F47124F0A75ACD2ECAC43D177A58E27" authorityName="Wroughton" authorityYear="1912" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Mus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="dunni">
<emphasis id="871004DF6DE87DBDABD53471F8B29571" italics="true" pageNumber="1410">dunni</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
).
</paragraph>
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<subSubSection id="4D01F7002BF99C1A397154256625F34A" pageNumber="1410" type="conservation">
<paragraph id="E71BF91369D6869ED8749ED13828DC00" pageNumber="1410">
<emphasis id="D396B88A1CCDF59666145C89D212B1A4" inLineHeading="true" pageNumber="1410">Conservation:</emphasis>
<collectionCode id="3A6ED14FBEB2DF2B11E09B7C4903F398">IUCN</collectionCode>
Lower Risk (lc).
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection id="1B286D9274868E75CED7646D3D4B9491" pageNumber="1410" type="discussion">
<paragraph id="8801B5B421AB34AAE1991DB5647942E6" pageNumber="1410">
<emphasis id="F07C3EBF5C5ADAA7ABCF0C7E9781E700" inLineHeading="true" pageNumber="1410">Discussion:</emphasis>
Subgenus
<taxonomicName id="91797DEF62E34A720E24185E5360AE5C" baseAuthorityName="F. Petter and Matthey" baseAuthorityYear="1975" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Mus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="99C6C4C0A40AA91B169A71EA0A21D098" italics="true" pageNumber="1410">Mus</emphasis>
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. Formerly referred to as
<taxonomicName id="E4B90D0C358F817E6879FEF907D120D8" authorityName="Wroughton" authorityYear="1912" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Mus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="dunni">
<emphasis id="2F14995504B5578C383C2E51B5172D5E" italics="true" pageNumber="1410">M. dunni</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(J.
<collectionCode id="F246CF4302FC2753E68B3BDCDED22E68" name="Tavera, Department of Geology and Geophysics">T</collectionCode>
. Marshall, Jr., 1977
<emphasis id="0A3FC5A68771FED4D1F56398402AD723" italics="true" pageNumber="1410">b</emphasis>
, 1986), but
<taxonomicName id="F5A63B1C54BF959EA8B33028D56A7BBD" authorityName="Blyth" authorityYear="1851" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Mus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="terricolor">
<emphasis id="92CEDBC356E78337BE764CEA618936FC" italics="true" pageNumber="1410">terricolor</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
is the older name (J.
<collectionCode id="207DBE2E021841FDC9CC79353D548C6B" name="Tavera, Department of Geology and Geophysics">T</collectionCode>
. Marshall, Jr., 1977
<bibRefCitation id="A338CA1EEECF358793EA68B3F02BDB3F" author="Cooper, S. J. B. &amp; T. B. Reardon &amp; J. Skilins" refId="ref67120" refString="Cooper, S. J. B., T. B. Reardon, and J. Skilins. 1998. Molecular systematics of Australian rhinolophid bats (Chiroptera: Rhinolophidae). Australian Journal of Zoology, 46: 203 - 220." year="1998">
<emphasis id="48C8B7480A2BF111A95460756D460DE6" italics="true" pageNumber="1410">b</emphasis>
, 1998:80
</bibRefCitation>
, and in litt., 1989). Chromosomal results presented by
<bibRefCitation id="17DE6F8D7EBCD738DDF387D92B5F30D8" author="Sharma, T. &amp; N. Cheong &amp; P. Sen &amp; S. Sen" refId="ref324638" refString="Sharma, T., N. Cheong, P. Sen, and S. Sen. 1986. Constitutive heterochromatin and evolutionary divergence of Mus dunni, M. booduga and M. musculus. Pp. 35 - 44, in Current topics in microbioloby and immunology, vol. 127 (M. Potter, J. H. Nadeau, and M. P. Cancro, eds.). Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 395 pp." year="1986">Sharma et al. (1986</bibRefCitation>
, under
<taxonomicName id="8D067726DD4D74B3AC9220757B5A57A9" authorityName="Wroughton" authorityYear="1912" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Mus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="dunni">
<emphasis id="A8DDC0767AFACC49443816D3A5F2ACD0" italics="true" pageNumber="1410">dunni</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
) and
<bibRefCitation id="C8FEB475832882495E65A28327B151A3" author="Boyeskorov, G. G. &amp; E. A. Lyapunova &amp; N. N. Vorontsov &amp; J. Jadav" refId="ref38663" refString="Boyeskorov, G. G., E. A. Lyapunova, N. N. Vorontsov, and J. Jadav. 1997. [The karyology of Mus dunni (Mammalia, Rodentia, Muridae).] Zoologicheskii Zhurnal, 76 (10): 1225 - 1227 (in Russian with English summary)." year="1997">Boyeskorov et al. (1997</bibRefCitation>
, as
<taxonomicName id="489F2C43BCEF874C84B4106E7F256602" authorityName="Wroughton" authorityYear="1912" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Mus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="dunni">
<emphasis id="77B6C01D8664601B52B8A34D3D96C726" italics="true" pageNumber="1410">dunni</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
) in context of evolutionary divergence from other species of
<taxonomicName id="79699E5D390093C6DBEEACCEFF4D965D" baseAuthorityName="F. Petter and Matthey" baseAuthorityYear="1975" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Mus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="2A7FF61D195B91D8520A7F23DC95942B" italics="true" pageNumber="1410">Mus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
. Closely related to
<taxonomicName id="8F3B828A54F9F77A04BAF2BE90CB5EF8" authorityName="Gray" authorityYear="1837" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Mus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="booduga">
<emphasis id="1307EF46F4AE96A33608E97EF22B64CF" italics="true" pageNumber="1410">Mus booduga</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
. Both species have 2n = 40, with all telocentric chromosomes, but
<taxonomicName id="CE7198E6244D815A2E9D6F5A8AA7BC47" authorityName="Gray" authorityYear="1837" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Mus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="booduga">
<emphasis id="ADF28ADDA6733170B13364BB08982CC5" italics="true" pageNumber="1410">M. booduga</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
has a slightly smaller Y chromosome. All populations sampled show the same karyotype;
<taxonomicName id="1E07A306F10D6E692DE2F6A6D2DC506A" authorityName="Blyth" authorityYear="1851" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Mus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="terricolor">
<emphasis id="F1E4BB2150E2CBA4C1A7C931D52FBF07" italics="true" pageNumber="1410">M. terricolor</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, however, has a large submetacentric X and telocentric Y. Furthermore, different populations of
<taxonomicName id="859BCABB200A2457C46BC596C310BED4" authorityName="Blyth" authorityYear="1851" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Mus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="terricolor">
<emphasis id="C6B1CF7BF91BD027C934BCAEC2D6A718" italics="true" pageNumber="1410">M. terricolor</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
have three different karyotypes (formally labelled I, II, and
<collectionCode id="8761FEF99CB9FE872F31EAF408D91901">III</collectionCode>
) indicating various stages of evolutionary differentiation in which heterochromatin may be important in the speciation process (
<bibRefCitation id="C0A5B8C1C58F09D295D6598E2418D762" author="Bahadur, M. &amp; T. Sharma" refId="ref17487" refString="Bahadur, M., and T. Sharma. 1995. Heterochromatin and karyotype evolution in the speciating &quot; Mus terricolor complex &quot;. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of Calcutta, 48 (1): 45 - 48." year="1995">Bahadur and Sharma, 1995</bibRefCitation>
;
<bibRefCitation id="2B7370A852E91696FE4F53E90A8DDD47" author="Sharma, T. &amp; A. Bardhan &amp; M. Bahadur" refId="ref324721" refString="Sharma, T., A. Bardhan, and M. Bahadur. 2002. Increases and decreases of whole-arm heterochromatin in specific chromosomes: An extraordinary situation in hybrids of the Mus terricolor complex. Cytogenetics and Genome Research, 96: 244 - 249." year="2002">Sharma et al., 2002</bibRefCitation>
). In a combined chromosomal and molecular study (allozymes, serum proteins, and mitochondrial cytochrome
<emphasis id="DBD9824D426B2DDF4B0A3D3C43AC9998" italics="true" pageNumber="1410">b</emphasis>
DNA sequences),
<bibRefCitation id="079850D7C8E2298312B8867C85549F0E" author="Sharma, T." refId="ref324458" refString="Sharma, T. 1996. Chromosomal and molecular divergence in the Indian pygmy field mice Mus booduga-terricolor lineages of the subgenus Mus. Genetica, 97: 331 - 338." year="1996">Sharma (1996)</bibRefCitation>
concluded the
<emphasis id="EDF79779ACF7CBBD85B874EC4CE17018" italics="true" pageNumber="1410">
M. booduga-M.
<taxonomicName id="E6C0BFD512A89FCD2DA20A638BB2DC7C" authorityName="Blyth" authorityYear="1851" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Mus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="terricolor">terricolor</taxonomicName>
</emphasis>
lineage probably evolved simultaneously with the
<emphasis id="2ADC941EA8F205EE84533BC6FDFE852D" italics="true" pageNumber="1410">
M. caroli-M. cookii-M.
<taxonomicName id="3B42E48E17CF01082CE27B53CF432B6D" baseAuthorityName="Graur" baseAuthorityYear="1994" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Mus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="cervicolor">cervicolor</taxonomicName>
</emphasis>
lineage and
<taxonomicName id="7DDD5BCD8E30EB726281249DFA578CE6" authorityName="Blyth" authorityYear="1851" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Mus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="terricolor">
<emphasis id="CC81FB2511B700D9EE1B84119B1E0F37" italics="true" pageNumber="1410">M. terricolor</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
itself is in an active phase of speciation.
<bibRefCitation id="33A127D12F4396A3C6402D5E8809BBEF" author="Balajee, A. S. &amp; T. Sharma" refId="ref19228" refString="Balajee, A. S., and T. Sharma. 1994. The chromosomal distribution of Mus musculus-like AT-rich heterochromatin in the M. dunni complex as revealed by AluI digestion of metaphase chromosomes. Cytogenetics and Cell Genetics, 66: 89 - 92." year="1994">Balajee and Sharma (1994)</bibRefCitation>
found
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<emphasis id="3310858EEE72BBE7CFF16C90AFE0C961" italics="true" pageNumber="1410">M. musculus</emphasis>
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like AT-rich heterochromatin in
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<emphasis id="BE9900A5A8375358D765DB726709D3BF" italics="true" pageNumber="1410">M. booduga</emphasis>
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and the three chromosomal forms of
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<emphasis id="6953D7933FA8CD92FB435400E12634A5" italics="true" pageNumber="1410">M. terricolor</emphasis>
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.
<bibRefCitation id="3E70407C7C2F0F88502326E4732AE9EE" author="Patnaik, R. &amp; M. Bahadur &amp; T. Sharma &amp; A. Sahni" refId="ref274126" refString="Patnaik, R., M. Bahadur, T. Sharma, and A. Sahni. 1993. A comparative analysis of the molars of Mus booduga, Mus dunni and fossil Mus of the Indian subcontinent: Phylogenetic and palaeobiogeographic implications. Current Science, 65 (10): 782 - 786." year="1993">Patnaik et al. (1993)</bibRefCitation>
contrasted dental traits and cranial features between
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<emphasis id="AB61D0E66E8A25AD59D4305C9AA0CE84" italics="true" pageNumber="1410">M. booduga</emphasis>
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and
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<emphasis id="818B33FF0BF10234294387D3C016EEFB" italics="true" pageNumber="1410">M. terricolor</emphasis>
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and compared dental patterns of those two with molars of six species of
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<emphasis id="88625D957BE1AC56F2E1D186A5EDD4E3" italics="true" pageNumber="1410">Mus</emphasis>
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represented by late Pliocene-Early Pleistocene fossils from the N portion the Indian subcontinent, concluding that the fossil
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are dentally closely related to the extinct species and reflect an early diversification in the evolutionary history of the genus. The multivariate morphometric analysis by Macholán (2001) suggested
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<emphasis id="22669CF7AD5C4A687CD4FDB68FB58A1B" italics="true" pageNumber="1410">M. terricolor</emphasis>
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to be distantly related to the two other species in subgenus
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<emphasis id="E6CC71885B13EECC1D2FEA99F9DCDCC8" italics="true" pageNumber="1410">Mus</emphasis>
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that were examined,
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<emphasis id="0488C0C364C0642E64CD709DD24EABF8" italics="true" pageNumber="1410">M. caroli</emphasis>
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and
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<emphasis id="A843F431C3D4990B2921621E8998B423" italics="true" pageNumber="1410">M. cervicolor</emphasis>
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. Occurrence and ecology of
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<emphasis id="969A0CE99A0654D4C8631AE455981FD1" italics="true" pageNumber="1410">M. terricolor</emphasis>
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in the Aravalli ranges of
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documented by
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Prakash et al. (1995
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,
<emphasis id="CBC03351C0E1743563B43A6E17167CDC" italics="true" pageNumber="1410">b</emphasis>
,
<emphasis id="70080CA5F719710822C2F6B4A93954B5" italics="true" pageNumber="1410">c</emphasis>
), and in
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, NW
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by
<bibRefCitation id="720C144D107B585CD77AB2F579E65A59" author="Chakraborty, S. &amp; V. C. Agrawal" refId="ref56514" refString="Chakraborty, S., and V. C. Agrawal. 2000. Mammalia. Pp. 15 - 83, in State Fauna Series No. 8, Fauna of Gujarat (Part I), Vertebrates (J. R. B. Alfred, ed.), Zoological Survey of India, 464 pp." year="2000">Chakraborty and Agrawal (2000)</bibRefCitation>
. The
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record was confirmed from comparisons with Indian and Nepalese samples using DNA sequences, all of which were very similar (K. Aplin, 2004).
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