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Constitutive heterochromatin and karyotype variation in Indian pygmy mouse, Mus dunni

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 April 2009

T. Sharma  and
G. S. Garg
T. Sharma
Affiliation:
Cytogenetics Laboratory, Department of Zoology, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi-221005, India.
G. S. Garg
Affiliation:
Cytogenetics Laboratory, Department of Zoology, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi-221005, India.

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The Indian pygmy mouse, Mus dunni, exhibits great variation in the number of chromosome arms while its diploid number of chromosomes remains constant. The variation seems to be due to addition or deletion of C-band positive constitutive heterochromatin in the short arms of autosomes.

Type
Short Papers
Information
Genetics Research , Volume 25 , Issue 2 , April 1975 , pp. 189 - 191
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1975

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