Polyembryony in Armadillos
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O travelers passing through the southern US. may be struck by the unusual appearance of the ninebanded armadillo (Dasypus novemcinctus). This animal, which is about threequarters of a meter long, canbe identified by the leathery plates of armor that cover it nearly from the tip of its nose to the end of its tail. It also has a seriesof transverse plates that wrap around its midsection, giving it a banded look. Odd as its appearance may be, though, a ninebanded armadillo is even more unusual
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Molecular documentation of polyembryony and the micro-spatial dispersion of clonal sibships in the nine-banded armadillo, Dasypus novemcinctus.
A battery of allelic markers at highly polymorphic microsatellite loci was developed and employed to confirm genetically, the clonal nature of sibships in nine-banded armadillos. This phenomenon of consistent polyembryony, otherwise nearly unknown among the vertebrates, was capitalized upon to describe the micro-spatial distributions of numerous clonal sibships in a natural population of armadi...
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