a karyological study of some murid rodents (rodentia: muridae) of iran

family muridae consists of eight genera and 28 species in iran. this family shows notable variability of karyological features. in this study, karyological data derived from 11 species of 7 genera of this family of iran are presented and compared with previously published accounts. the included species were: mus musculus musculus from gonbad (2n=40, fn=40) and birjand (2n=40, fn=38), rattus norvegicus (2n=42), apodemus uralensis (2n=48), apodemus avicennicus (2n=48), apodemus hyrcanicus (2n=48), apodemus witherbyi (2n=48) from zanjan and gorgan, nesokia indica (2n=42), meriones libycus (2n=44), meriones persicus (2n=44), meriones crassus from kashmar (2n=54) and tabas (2n=60), tatera indica from zabul (2n=68) and hoveyzeh (2n=66) and rhombomys opimus (2n=40).