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Metacentric sex-chromosomes in a rodent species, Rattus (Millardia) meltada pallidior (Ryley)
T K Gill1, O P Mittal, S Gupta
1Department of Zoology, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India.
Cytobios
|January 1, 1988
Abstract:
The diploid chromosome number in Rattus (Millardia) meltada pallidior (Ryley) is 52 where all the autosomes are acrocentric, and the sex-chromosomes X and y are metacentric. The X chromosome is the largest in the complement being 13.25 microns and the y chromosome is 6.00 microns in length. The autosomes range in size from 9 microns to 2.57 microns.