Revista de Biología Tropical ISSN Impreso: 0034-7744 ISSN electrónico: 2215-2075

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Estudios cariológicos de cinco especies de serpientes costarricenses de la familia Colubridae
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Gutiérrez, J. M., Solórzano, A., & Cerdas, L. (1984). Estudios cariológicos de cinco especies de serpientes costarricenses de la familia Colubridae. Revista De Biología Tropical, 32(2), 263–267. Retrieved from https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/rbt/article/view/24621

Abstract

The karyotypes of five species of colubrid snakes from Costa Rica are as follows: Imuntodes cenchao and Drymobius margaritiferus have a diploid number of 36, with 16 macro- and 20 microchromosomes. The fourth pair is heteromorphic in females of I. cenchoa, with a metacentric Z and a submetacentric W chromosomes. Karyotypes of Erythrolampius bizonus and Leimadophis epinephalus have 28 chromosomes, without a clearcut separation between macro- and microchromosomes. In the case of E. bizomus, the fourth pair contains the sex chromosomes Z and W, both are submetacentric, but the W is smaller. Xenedon rabdocephalus has a diploid number of 34 chromosomes (22 macro- and 12 microchromosomes); pair 3 is heteromorphic in femaJes, with a submetacentric Z and a smaller metacentric W. The karyotype of X. rabdocephalus may be derived from a primitive karyotype by means of reduction in the number of microchromosomes and centric fissions of two pairs of metacentric autosomes.
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