Karyological and allozyme survey of the Common shrew, Sorex araneus, from Macedonia
M. Macholán
Institute of Animal Physiology and Genetics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Brno, Czech Republic; Department of Biology, University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, Rome, Italy; and Slovene Museum of Natural History, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Search for more papers by this authorMaria G. Filippucci
Institute of Animal Physiology and Genetics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Brno, Czech Republic; Department of Biology, University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, Rome, Italy; and Slovene Museum of Natural History, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Search for more papers by this authorJ. Zima
Institute of Animal Physiology and Genetics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Brno, Czech Republic; Department of Biology, University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, Rome, Italy; and Slovene Museum of Natural History, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Search for more papers by this authorB. Kryštufek
Institute of Animal Physiology and Genetics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Brno, Czech Republic; Department of Biology, University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, Rome, Italy; and Slovene Museum of Natural History, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Search for more papers by this authorS. Simson
Institute of Animal Physiology and Genetics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Brno, Czech Republic; Department of Biology, University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, Rome, Italy; and Slovene Museum of Natural History, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Search for more papers by this authorM. Macholán
Institute of Animal Physiology and Genetics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Brno, Czech Republic; Department of Biology, University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, Rome, Italy; and Slovene Museum of Natural History, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Search for more papers by this authorMaria G. Filippucci
Institute of Animal Physiology and Genetics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Brno, Czech Republic; Department of Biology, University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, Rome, Italy; and Slovene Museum of Natural History, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Search for more papers by this authorJ. Zima
Institute of Animal Physiology and Genetics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Brno, Czech Republic; Department of Biology, University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, Rome, Italy; and Slovene Museum of Natural History, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Search for more papers by this authorB. Kryštufek
Institute of Animal Physiology and Genetics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Brno, Czech Republic; Department of Biology, University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, Rome, Italy; and Slovene Museum of Natural History, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Search for more papers by this authorS. Simson
Institute of Animal Physiology and Genetics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Brno, Czech Republic; Department of Biology, University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, Rome, Italy; and Slovene Museum of Natural History, Ljubljana, Slovenia
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Karyotype and genetic variation of the common shrew (Sorex araneus) from Mt. Pelister in southern Macedonia has been studied. Whereas all autosomes in the chromosomal set (2 na, = 28, the only present metacentrics being af, bc, jl, and tu) were of the standard type as well as the sex chromosomes X and Y2 in males, the Y1 chromosome was a small metacentric. This chromosomal feature is unique among the common shrew populations studied cytogenetically so far. Three out of 33 loci analysed (Sdh, 6Pgd, Mdh-1) were discriminant between the Mt. Pelister population and Sorex araneus from Slovenia and two loci (Est-3, Ada) were partially discriminant. A relatively high value of Nei's genetic distance (D = 0.137) confirms unique character of the Pelister population.
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