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
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Ventura, Karen
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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
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10.11646/zootaxa.4876.1.1
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Oecomys franciscorum
Pardiñas
et al
. (2016)
recognized the karyotype described by
Andrade & Bonvicino (2003)
for an undescribed species of
Oecomys
from Corumbá,
Mato Grosso do Sul state
of
Brazil
, as
O. franciscorum
. Karyotype: 2n = 72 and FN = 90. Autosomal complement: 10 biarmed pairs (one large and the remaining medium to small decreasing in size), and 25 acrocentric pairs large to small decreasing in size. Sex chromosomes: X, a submetacentric (the largest chromosome of the complement); Y, a medium submetacentric. One female presented heteromorphism of the short arm of the X chromosome. C-banding metaphases exhibited blocks of constitutive heterochromatin on the pericentromeric region of the majority of the autosome pairs. The X chromosome presented the short arm entirely heterochromatic, plus a C-band on the distal region of its long arm. The Y chromosome presented a heterochromatic block on the distal region of the long arm. G-banding was also performed (
Andrade & Bonvicino 2003
, pp. 198,
Fig. 2A
).