Description of Karyotype of Kerodon acrobata, an endemic rodent in Brazilian Cerrado

Kerodon acrobata is a caviidae rodent endemic from Brazilian Cerrado. It was described only in 1997 and the data about it is very scarce. The aim of this work was to characterize the karyotype of K. acrobata. Giemsa staining, nucleolar organizer region (NOR) banding, C-positive heterochromatin bandi...

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Main Authors: IA Zappes, AS Portella, GM Lessa
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Instituto Internacional de Ecologia
Series:Brazilian Journal of Biology
Subjects:
NOR
Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1519-69842014000100033&lng=en&tlng=en