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- Title
Chromosomes of the Common Shrew.
- Authors
SHARMAN, G. B.
- Abstract
BOVEY1 reported that two male specimens of the common shrew (Sorex araneus L.), from Switzerland, had a sex-chromosome trivalent at first metaphase of meiosis. He did not examine female chromosomes, so was unable to determine whether the sex-chromosome mechanism was XY1Y2 : XX (the female having one sex-chromosome less than the male) or X1X2Y : X1X1X2X2 (the female having one sex-chromosome more than the male). Study of four male and two female shrews collected in Britain confirms the presence of a sex-chromosome trivalent in the male and shows that the female has but two sex-chromosomes (XX).
- Publication
Nature, 1956, Vol 177, Issue 4516, p941
- ISSN
0028-0836
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1038/177941a0