Morphology and karyology of two populations of the woodland dormouse Graphiurus murinus in the Eastern Cape, South Africa

Title:

Morphology and karyology of two populations of the woodland dormouse Graphiurus murinus in the Eastern Cape, South Africa

Creator:

Kryštufek, Boris, Haberl, Werner, Baxter, Rod M., and Zima, Jan

Identifier:

https://cdk.lib.cas.cz/client/handle/uuid:96ebb6ce-fc26-42c6-d3bf-1a1c42ab0c55
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Subject:

African dormice, skull, molars, baculum, morphometrics, and karyotype

Type:

article and TEXT

Description:

We compared cranial, dental, bacular and chromosomal variables between a population of Graphiurus murinus collected in riverine forest in the Andries Vosloo Kudu Reserve (AVKR) near Grahamstown (N= 32), and another from Afromontane forest at Hobbiton on Hogsback (HH), in the Amathole Mountains (N=21), Eastern Cape, South Africa. AVKR dormice were significantly larger in 13 out of a total of 23 cranial dimensions and they had a relatively longer rostrum. The 4th upper premolar was clearly longer and the tip of the baculum broader in the sample from HH. Discriminant function analyses of cranial and dental parameters perfectly separated the two samples. The karyotypes were the same at both localities (2n= 46; NFa = 92) but differed from previously reported karyotypes of Graphiurus species from Africa.

Language:

English

Rights:

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/

Source:

Folia zoologica | 2004 Volume:53 | Number:4

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