The distribution of telomeric repeats was analyzed by fluorescence in situ hybridization in 15
species of arvicoline rodents, included in three different genera: Chionomys, Arvicola, and …

The genus Microtus consists of 65 extant species, making it one of the rodentia genera with
the highest number of species. The extreme karyotype diversification in Microtus has made …

The voles of the Microtus thomasi/M. atticus species complex demonstrate a remarkable
variability in diploid chromosomal number (2n= 38–44 chromosomes) and sex chromosome …

Cross-species chromosome painting has become the mainstay of comparative cytogenetic
and chromosome evolution studies. Here we have made a set of chromosomal painting …

Great genome size (GS) variations described in desert-specialist octodontid rodents include
diploid species (Octomys mimax and Octodontomys gliroides) and putative tetraploid …

Abstract In the subfamily Arvicolinae (Cricetidae, Rodentia) the satellite DNA Msat-160 has
been so far described in only some species from the genus Microtus and in one species …

Long interspersed nuclear elements (L1 or LINE-1) are the most abundant and active
retroposons in the mammalian genome. Traditionally, the bulk of L1 sequences have been …

Euchromatic segments of the X chromosomes of placental mammals are the most
conservative elements of the karyotype, only rarely subjected to either inter-or …

The greater long-tailed hamster (Tscherskia triton, Cricetinae) has a unique karyotype (2n=
28), containing 11 pairs of acrocentric chromosomes with large C-band-positive centromeric …

Different diploid chromosome numbers have been reported for the tufted deer Elaphodus
cephalophus (female, 2n= 46/47; male, 2n= 47/48) in earlier reports. In the present study …