Whole-genome duplications in South American desert rodents (Octodontidae)

• Published in: Biological Journal of the Linnean Society
• Main Authors: Gallardo Narcisi, Milton Hermes, Kausel, G., Jiménez, A., Bacquet, C., González, C., Figueroa, J., Köhler, N., Ojeda, Ricardo Alberto
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley Blackwell Publishing, Inc
• Subjects: allotetraploidy; hybridization; octodontids; polyploidy; https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1.6; https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1; Austral; Argentino; Argentina; Milton; Ricardo; Jiménez; Figueroa; Instituto Antártico Argentino
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11336/102012

The discovery of tetraploidy in the red viscacha rat, Tympanoctomys barrerae (4 n = 102) has emphasized the evolutionary role of genome duplication in mammals. The tetraploid status of this species is corroborated here by in situ PCR and Southern blot analysis of a single-copy gene. The species meio...