Rodents constitute one of the most diversified mammalian orders. Due to the morphological
similarity in many of the groups, their taxonomy is controversial. Karyotype information …

Oryzomyini represents the most diverse and speciose tribe of subfamily Sigmodontinae, with
29 genera and about 141 species. This great diversity of species is distributed from …

We report the first chromosome-length genome assemblies for three species in the
mammalian order Pholidota: the white-bellied, Chinese, and Sunda pangolins. Surprisingly …

The genome of the red vizcacha rat (Rodentia, Octodontidae, Tympanoctomys barrerae) is
the largest of all mammals, and about double the size of their close relative, the mountain …

Background The thin-spined porcupine, also known as the bristle-spined rat, Chaetomys
subspinosus (Olfers, 1818), the only member of its genus, figures among Brazilian …

Multiple sex chromosome systems have been described for several mammalian orders, with
different species from the same genus sharing the same system (eg, X1X2Y or XY1Y2). This …

Rhipidomys (Sigmodontinae, Thomasomyini) has 25 recognized species, with a wide
distribution ranging from eastern Panama to northern Argentina. Cytogenetic data has been …

CONTEXT AND CONTENT. Order Rodentia, suborder Hystricognathi, family Echimyidae,
subfamily Dactylomyinae, genus Dactylomys. The original generic description by 1. Geoffroy …

Species of the genus Ctenomys (Rodentia: Ctenomyidae) exhibit one the greatest amounts
of chromosomal variation known for a mammalian clade. We analyze the distribution of …

The genus Makalata is a taxonomically complex group of rodents on which few cytogenetic
studies have been performed. Most of the published karyotypes were described based only …