Transcaucasian Mole Vole
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| Transcaucasian Mole Vole | |
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| Conservation status | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Cricetidae |
| Genus: | Ellobius |
| Species: | E. lutescens |
| Binomial name | |
| Ellobius lutescens Thomas, 1897 |
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The Transcaucasian Mole Vole (Ellobius lutescens) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae.
It is found in Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, and Turkey.
[edit] Chromosomes
Transcaucasian Mole Voles have no SRY gene or Y chromosome, and their sex-determination method remains unknown.[2]
[edit] References
- ^ Kryštufek, B. & Shenbrot, G. (2008). Ellobius lutescens. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 24 May 2009. Database entry includes a brief justification of why this species is of least concern.
- ^ Bagheri-Fam, S et al. (January 2012). "Sox9 gene regulation and the loss of the XY/XX sex-determining mechanism in the mole vole Ellobius lutescens.". Chromosome Research 20 (1). http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22215485.
- Musser, G. G. and M. D. Carleton. 2005. Superfamily Muroidea. pp. 894–1531 in Mammal Species of the World a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. D. E. Wilson and D. M. Reeder eds. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore.
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