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Talpa caeca

Chordata › Mammalia › Soricomorpha › Talpidae

17, 18haploid counts

Diploid number in the source: 34, 36

Conflicting counts This record lists more than one count.

The chart below uses the first one, 17. The sources are listed together under Sources.

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Other species in Talpa.

Sources

  1. Bovey R. (1949a). Les chromosomes des Chiroptиres et des Insectivores. Rev. Suisse zool. 56(30): 371-460
  2. Gropp A. (1969a). Cytologic mechanisms of karyotype evolution in insectivores. In: K. Benirschke (ed.). Comparative mammalian cytogenetics. Springer, Berlin: 247-266.
  3. Gropp A., Geisler M. and Cytoler P. (1966) The chromosomes of the hedgehog (Erinaceus europ.) and the mole (Talpa europ.). Mammal. Chrom. Newsl. 22: 181-182.
  4. Hsu T.C. and Benirschke K. (1968c). Talpa europaea. An Atlas of Mammalian Chromosomes, Springer Verlag, New York: 2: 154.
  5. Kozlovsky A.I., Orlov V.N. and Papko N.S. (1972) Systematic status of Caucasian (Talpa caucasica) and common (T. europaea) moles by karyological data. Zool. Zh. 51: 312-316.
  6. Kratochvil J. and Kral B. (1972). Karyotypes and phylogenetic relationships of certain species of the genus Talpa (Talpidae, Insectivora). Zool. Listy. 21(3): 199-208. (R)
  7. Meylan A. (1966). Donnйes nouvelles sur les chromosomes des insectivores europйens (Mamm.) Revue suisse Zool. 73(3): 548-558.
  8. Todorović, M., Soldatović, B., & Dunderski, Z. (1972). Karyotype characteristics of population of the genus Talpa from Macedonia and Montenegro. Arhiv biol. nauka, Beograd, 24, 131-139.
  9. Zima J. (1983b). The karyotype of the Talpa europaea kratochvili (Talpidae, Insectivora). Folia zool. Brno. 32(2): 131-136.
  10. Makino, S. (1951). An atlas of the chromosome numbers in animals. Iowa State College Press, Ames.
  11. Koller P.C. (1937). Chromosome behaviour in the male ferret and mole during anoestrus. Proc. Royal Soc. B 121: 192-206.
  12. Ashman, T. L., Bachtrog, D., Blackmon, H., Goldberg, E. E., Hahn, M. W., Kirkpatrick, M., et al. (2014). Tree of Sex: A database of sexual systems. Scientific Data, 1, 140015.

The sources are listed together. The data does not say which source reports which count.

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