Homomorphic Sex Chromosomes and the Intriguing Y Chromosome of <b><i>Ctenomys </i></b>Rodent Species<b> </b>(Rodentia, Ctenomyidae)
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Homomorphic sex chromosomes and the intriguing Y chromosome of Ctenomys rodent species (Rodentia, Ctenomyidae).
Unlike the X chromosome, the mammalian Y chromosome undergoes evolutionary decay resulting in small size. This sex chromosomal heteromorphism, observed in most species of the fossorial rodent Ctenomys, contrasts with the medium-sized, homomorphic acrocentric sex chromosomes of closely related C. maulinus and C. sp. To characterize the sequence composition of these chromosomes, fluorescent bandi...
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عنوان ژورنال: Cytogenetic and Genome Research
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1424-8581,1424-859X
DOI: 10.1159/000366173