Karyotypic kinship between the blue fox ( Alopex lagopus Linn.) and the silver fox ( Vulpes fulva Desm.)
A karyotypic comparison between the blue fox and the silver fox revealed conservation of the chromosome arm as a unit, except for large heterochromatic blocks in 10 pairs of blue fox chromosomes and the complete absence of a common metacentric autosomal pair. This finding seems to indicate that thei...
| Published in: | Cytogenetic and Genome Research |
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| Main Authors: | , , |
| Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
| Language: | English |
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S. Karger AG
1983
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| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000131865 https://www.karger.com/Article/Pdf/131865 |
| Summary: | A karyotypic comparison between the blue fox and the silver fox revealed conservation of the chromosome arm as a unit, except for large heterochromatic blocks in 10 pairs of blue fox chromosomes and the complete absence of a common metacentric autosomal pair. This finding seems to indicate that their karyotypes evolved from a common ancestral karyotype, characterized by 70–76 acrocentric autosomes, mainly through a series of independent centric fusions. |
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