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Journal of Biological Sciences

Year: 2006 | Volume: 6 | Issue: 4 | Page No.: 754-757
DOI: 10.3923/jbs.2006.754.757
Karyotype Analysis of Ground Squirrel (Mammalia: Rodentia) in Malatya (TUrkiye)
Muhammet Gaffaroglu and Esref Yuksel

Abstract: The study was carried out in order to determine chromosomal variations both within and between populations in Spermophilus in Malatya. By the analysis of karyotypes we obtained the diploid chromosome number 2n = 42 and NF = 68 and NFa = 64 of these one pair of chromosome was metacentric, seven pairs were submetacentric, four pairs were subtelocentric and eight pairs were acrocentric. The X chromosome was metacentric and Y was acrocentric. In the result it was shown that there was difference neither in the number nor in the morphology of the chromosomes both within and between populations. The results were compared with previous studies and the karyological and taxonomical status of Spermophilus were discussed.

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Muhammet Gaffaroglu and Esref Yuksel, 2006. Karyotype Analysis of Ground Squirrel (Mammalia: Rodentia) in Malatya (TUrkiye). Journal of Biological Sciences, 6: 754-757.

Keywords: Rodentia, Spermophilus, ground squirrel, chromosome, karyotype and Turkiye

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