A Biometric Analysis of the Chromosomes of the Marsupials – Macropus major, Macropus rufus and Potorous tridactylis

Vol. 4, No. 3, 1965

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A Biometric Analysis of the Chromosomes of the Marsupials - Macropus major, Macropus rufus and Potorous tridactylis
Ruth Moore

Radiobiological Research Unit, Cancer Institute Board, Melbourne

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Cytogenetics 1965;4:145-156 (DOI: 10.1159/000129851)

Abstract

Chromosome analyses were made of three species of marsupial (Macropus major, Macropus rufus and Potorous tridactylis) using c-metaphase cells from either peripheral blood cultures or, in one case, bone marrow. The chromosomes were analysed using parameters previously suggested. In species with relatively short chromosomes, Z and errors for these chromosomes are larger. It was found that the long arm of chromosome No. 1 in M. major, and both arms of chromosome No. 1 in M. rufus, contract at a different rate during metaphase than do the other autosomes in these species.

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Author's address: Dr. Ruth Moore, Radiobiological Research Unit, Cancer Institute Board, 483 Little Lonsdale St., Melbourne (Australia).

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