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The sex chromosomes are the only acrocentric elements of the complement. The autosomes can be roughly classified into three groups: 6 pairs of large metacentrics and submetacentrics, 6 pairs of medium-sized to small submetacentrics, and 3 pairs of large subtelocentrics. The karyotypes presented here are quite different from the ones described by Taitz, who considered that the sex chromosomes are submetacentrics and that the X is the largest element of the complement.
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Hsu, T.C., Benirschke, K. (1968). Mystromys albicaudatus (White-tailed rat). In: An Atlas of Mammalian Chromosomes. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-6424-9_10
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