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The karyotypes presented here are gifts of Mr. James L. Patton, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA. The male specimen belongs to subspecies P. p. atrodorsalis, collected 4km west of Tula, Tamaulipas, Mexico. The female belongs to P. p. eremicus, collected 24 miles north of Saltillo, Conhuila, Mexico. Direct bone marrow preparations were used in both cases.
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Patton, J.L.: Chromosome studies of certain pocket mice, genus Perognathus (Rodentia:Heteromyidae). J. Mammal. 48: 27, 1967.
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Hsu, T.C., Benirschke, K. (1968). Perognathus penicillatus (Desert pocket mouse). In: An Atlas of Mammalian Chromosomes. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-6424-9_8
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