Ellobius

Ellobius
Temporal range: Late Pliocene to Recent
Northern mole vole (Ellobius talpinus)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Cricetidae
Subfamily: Arvicolinae
Tribe: Ellobiusini
Gill, 1872
Genus: Ellobius
Fischer, 1814
Type species
Mus talpinus
Pallas, 1770
Species

Ellobius alaicus
Ellobius talpinus
Ellobius tancrei

Ellobius is a genus of rodents in the family Cricetidae. It contains two (E. talpinus and E. tancrei) of the handful of examples of mammal species that have lost the Y chromosome.

The genus has the following species:

Two members of this genus were moved to the genus Bramus:

See also

References

  1. ↑ Musser, G. G.; Carleton, M. D. (2005). "Genus Ellobius". In Wilson, D. E.; Reeder, D. M. (eds.). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 974–976. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.
  2. ↑ 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): 191–9. doi:10.1007/s10577-011-9269-5. PMID 22215485.
  3. ↑ Kolomiets, O.; Matveevsky, Sergey; Bakloushinskaya, Irina (2010-09-07). "Sexual dimorphism in prophase I of meiosis in the Northern mole vole (Ellobius talpinus Pallas, 1770) with isomorphic (XX) chromosomes in males and females". Comparative Cytogenetics. 4 (1): 55–66. doi:10.3897/compcytogen.v4i1.25. ISSN 1993-078X.