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Mus booduga and Mus terricolor both have 2n=40. Unlike M. booduga, with all acrocentric chromosomes, M. terricolor invariably has large submetacentric X and acrocentric Y due to an increase of heterochromatin. In contrast to the conservative karyotype of the co-existing sibling species booduga, three chromosome types of terricolor are found in different populations and their divergent karyotypes have autosomal heterochromatin variations established in the homozygous condition. The average genetic distance determined from electrophoretic study of 20 protein loci ranges from lowest (D=0.106) between chromosome types I & II to highest (D=0.185) between types II & III. In terricolor, booduga and M. m. tytleri high mean values of variations per locus (range A=1.604 to 1.928) and heterozygosity per individual per locus (range H=0.180 to 0.336) have been observed. Sequence divergence of 0.39 to 1.2%, calculated from restriction profiles of mtDNA, shows that the terricolor chromosome types have diverged recently. Hybridizations between type I females and type III males gave a preponderance of males in the F1 with varying degrees of sterility. The ‘terricolor complex’ is an interesting system for critical probing for the role of heterochromatin in the process of speciation. MtDNA, protein loci and AT-rich musculus-related major and minor satellite DNA data indicate that progenitors of the booduga-terricolor lineage might have evolved simultaneously with the caroli-cookii-cervicolor lineage in the evolution of the subgenus Mus.
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Sharma, T. Chromosomal and molecular divergence in the Indian pygmy field mice Mus booduga-terricolor lineage of the subgenus Mus . Genetica 97, 331–338 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00055319
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