VARIATION IN MORPHOLOGY OF THE KARYOTYPE IN THE SMALL INDIAN MALE MONGOOSE HERPESTES AUROPUNCTATUS HODGSON (MAMMALIA: CARNIVORA)
BIBAHAS KAR *
DEPARTMENT OF ZOOLOGY, GUJARAT UNIVERSITY, AHMEDABAD-380009, INDIA. CENTRAL RICE RESEARCH INSTITUTE, CUTTACK-753006, INDIA.
ANAND PRAKASH *
DEPARTMENT OF ZOOLOGY, GUJARAT UNIVERSITY, AHMEDABAD-380009, INDIA. CENTRAL RICE RESEARCH INSTITUTE, CUTTACK-753006, INDIA.
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Abstract
A variation in chromosomes of male small Indian mongoose H. auropunctatus was studied in direct preparation from its bone marrow of femur. There were 35 chromosomes, including one X-chromosome as sex chromosome and no Y-chromosome. The autosomes represented as 17 pairs of bivalents represented by 4 pairs of metacentric, 3 pairs of submetacentric and 10 pairs of subtelocentric chromosomes. X-chromosome did not form a trivalent with a pair of autosome bivalent