Chromosome Studies on the Silky AnteaterCyclopes DidactylusL. (Myrmec Ophagidae: Xenarthra, Edentata)

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1 January 1985

journal article
research article
Published by Firenze University Press in Caryologia

Vol. 38 (3-4) , 325-329
https://doi.org/10.1080/00087114.1985.10797756

Abstract

The karyotype of the silky anteater Cyclopes didactylus, the smallest of the anteaters is described. A notable difference in karyotypes exists between C. didactylus (2n = 64) and the other species of the family Myrmecophagidae. Both fusion/fission as well as other mechanisms are probably involved in the reduction of the chromosome number of 64 chromosome in Cyclopes to 60 and 54 in Tamandua and Myrmecophaga, respectively.

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