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Karyotype Variability and Chromosome Transilience in Rodents: The Case of the Genus Mus

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Evolutionary Relationships among Rodents

Part of the book series: NATO Advanced Science Institutes (ASI) Series ((NSSA,volume 92))

Abstract

In the evolutionary processes a basic distinction must be made between adaptive divergence and transilience (Templeton, 1982), because the latter involves a discontinuity in which some sort of reproductive barrier is overcome by different evolutionary forces in which chromosomal rearrangements (chromosomal transilience) have to be considered as preeminent. Oversimplifying this semantic dichotomy, natural selection drives adaptive divergence, while transilience occurs in spite of it. This non-Darwinian formulation of transilience speciation obviously must be accepted with all due caution. As will be shown below, some sort of selective advantage must be involved in the chromosomal rearrangement itself in order to allow the fixation of the new karyotype in the population.

This report on chromosomal evolution in rodents was planned by Alfred Gropp and me as a joint effort to summarize the results of a decade of collaborative work on Mus cytogenetics. Unfortunately, Alfred Gropp died suddenly in the autumn of 1983. As a token of a profound friendship, I dedicate this paper to his memory.

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Capanna, E. (1985). Karyotype Variability and Chromosome Transilience in Rodents: The Case of the Genus Mus. In: Luckett, W.P., Hartenberger, JL. (eds) Evolutionary Relationships among Rodents. NATO Advanced Science Institutes (ASI) Series, vol 92. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-0539-0_25

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