Chromosomal diversity in the genus Microtus at its southern distributional margin in Iran

Title:

Chromosomal diversity in the genus Microtus at its southern distributional margin in Iran

Creator:

Mahmoudi, Ahmad, Darvish, Jamshid, Aliabadian, Mansour, Khosravi, Mahmoud, Golenishchev, Fedor N., and Kryštufek, Boris

Identifier:

https://cdk.lib.cas.cz/client/handle/uuid:8f70c9a0-440c-4cfb-8dbb-547032cfc2c4
uuid:8f70c9a0-440c-4cfb-8dbb-547032cfc2c4

Subject:

karyotype, Microtus irani, Microtus mystacinus, and zoological nomenclature

Type:

article, model:article, and TEXT

Description:

We karyotyped six species of Microtus voles collected along the southern edge of their range in northern and western Iran. Diploid and fundamental numbers were as follows: M. socialis and M. paradoxus 2n = 62, FNa = 60, M. qazvinensis 2n = 54, FNa = 54, M. transcaspicus 2n = 52, FNa = 52, and M. mystacinus (= M. rossiaemeridionalis) 2n = 54, FNa = 54. Two cytotypes were retrieved in M. irani from its type locality: 2n = 48, FNa = 46 and 2n = 64, FNa = 62. While our results confirmed an early report of 2n = 64 for this vole, the 2n = 48 cytotype remains unexplained. Karyological variability is relatively low in social voles and chromosomal data contribute little to individual species recognition. We argue that Arvicola mystacinus De Filippi, 1865, described from Lar Valley (north-east of Tehran) is the oldest available name for 2n = 54 voles with the following synonyms: M. subarvalis Meyer, Orlov & Skholl, 1969, M. epiroticus Ondrias, 1966, and M. rossiaemeridionalis Ognev, 1924.

Language:

English

Rights:

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
policy:public

Source:

Folia zoologica | 2014 Volume:63 | Number:4

Harvested from:

CDK

Metadata only:

false