A review on the cytogenetics of the tribe Oryzomyini (Rodentia: Cricetidae: Sigmodontinae), with the description of new karyotypes
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Moreira, Camila Do Nascimento
Author
Ventura, Karen
Author
Percequillo, Alexandre Reis
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Yonenaga-Yassuda, Yatiyo
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Zootaxa
2020
2020-11-06
4876
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journal article
7983
10.11646/zootaxa.4876.1.1
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Hylaeamys perenensis
Karyotype: 2n = 52 and FN = 62. Autosomal complement: six metacentric and submetacentric pairs medium to small decreasing in size, and 19 acrocentric pairs (one very large and the remaining large to small decreasing in size). Sex chromosomes: X, a large acrocentric; Y, a small acrocentric (
Gardner & Patton 1976
, pp. 6,
Fig. 2C
;
Patton
et al
. 2000
;
Volobouev & Aniskin 2000
). C-banding metaphases exhibited blocks of constitutive heterochromatin on the pericentromeric region of all autosomes and on the X chromosome. The Y chromosome was entirely heterochromatic. G-banding was also performed (
Volobouev & Aniskin 2000
). A different fundamental number of 64 was reported by
Musser
et al
. (1998
,
Malygin 1994
(congress abstract)).
The karyotype of
H. oniscus
and
H. perenensis
were very similar, however
H. perenensis
exhibits a distinctly large acrocentric chromosome that was not present in
H. oniscus
.