Chromosomes and DNA of Mus: the karyotypes of M. fulvidiventris and M. dunni.

The chromosomes of the Asian mice, Mus fulvidiventris (booduga?), are typical of the Mus in general, viz., 40 telocentric chromosomes. The centromeric heterochromatin does not fluoresce brightly. The G band pattern of the euchromatin is the same as that of M. musculus. The diploid number of M. dunni is also 40, but each autosome possesses a short, heterochromatic second arm. The X chromosome is a long submetacentric, whose entire short arm and the terminal segment of the long arm are heterochromatic. The Y is a long telocentric and is heterochromatic. The G band pattern of the long arms of M. dunni involved only the addition of C bands. Mus dunni and M. booduga are sympatric in many localities in India, but they can be separated by karyological and subtle morphological differences.