Viscacha Rat - Octomys mimax

IUCN Status: Lower Risk/Least Concern
IUCN Species Profile
Natural History: Desert dreams: seeking the secret mammals of the ...: On one of my field trips, I had hoped to find a little-known rodent called the plains, or red, viscacha rat (Tympanoctomys barrerae). ...
http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/classification/Octodontidae.html

ADW: Octodontidae: Classification: Genus Octomys (viacacha rat). Species Octomys mimax (viscacha rat). Genus Spalacopus (coruro). ... Species Tympanoctomys barrerae (plains viscacha rat). ...
http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/classification/Tympanoctomys.html

ADW: Tympanoctomys: Classification: Genus Tympanoctomys (plains viscacha rat). Classification. ... Genus Tympanoctomys (plains viscacha rat). Species Tympanoctomys barrerae (plains viscacha rat). ...
http://agnews.tamu.edu/dailynews/stories/WFSC/Sep2299a.htm

YOU BIG RAT: Texas Researchers Find First Evidence of Tetraploid ...: Researchers at the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station and their counterparts in Chile and Argentina have found evidence that the red viscacha rat, common in ...
http://www.grisda.org/origins/52028.htm

ANNOTATIONS 52: Nature 401:341. Summary. The red viscacha rat, Tympanoctomys barrerae, is a member of the family Octodontidae, endemic to South America. ...
http://madsci.wustl.edu/posts/archives/may2001/989331026.Ev.r.html

Re: How can genetic mutations change the n chromosome number of a ...: There are also several tetraploid species of claw-toed frogs, and even a tetraploid rat (the red viscacha rat, or Tympanoctomys barrerae)! ...
http://www.phthiraptera.org/Mammals/Octodontidae.html

Mammals: Octodontidae: Hoplopleura disgrega Ferris, 1921 *. Octomys. Octomys mimax Thomas, 1920 - Viscacha Rat Spalacopus. Spalacopus cyanus (Molina, 1782) - Cururo Tympanoctomys. ...
http://www.genomesize.com/summary.htm

Animal Genome Size Database: ...(Note: The polyploid red viscacha rat, Tympanoctomys barrerae, has a haploid DNA content of ~8.4pg). Mean for all mammals: 3.5pg ± 0.04. Marsupials ...
http://www.fmnh.helsinki.fi/users/haaramo/Metazoa/Deuterostoma/Chordata/Synapsida/Eutheria/Rodentia/Hystricognatha/Octodontidae.htm

Octodontidae: Tympanoctomys barrerae (viskatsarotta) | |-- Spalacopus cyanus (koruro) | |-- Octodontomys gliroides (tsostsos) | `-- Octomys mimax (Viscacha Rat, Rata Cola ...
http://naturalselection.0catch.com/Files/donkeyshorsesmules.html

Donkeys, Horses, Mules and Evolution: There are also several tetraploid species of claw-toed frogs, and even a tetraploid rat (the red viscacha rat, or Tympanoctomys barrerae). ...
http://www.asa3.org/archive/evolution/199911/0071.html

Evolution - November 1999: Re: tetrapoidy in mammals: The >Red Viscacha rat has 102 chromosomes though only one X and Y. Other >related genera of rats have 2N=57 so a strict doubling of them would have >lead to 4N ...
http://www.savci.upol.cz/hlod-5.htm

Rodentia - Hlodavci: Octodon gliroides): (syn. Neoctodon simonsi) Octomys mimax Thomas, 1920 - viskaÄ?ovec - Viscacha Rat. Spalacopus cyanus (Molina, 1782) - kururo - Coruro: (syn. ...
http://www.cricyt.edu.ar/INSTITUTOS/iadiza/ojeda/Nature.htm

sci correspondence: Nevertheless, genetic evidence from the red viscacha rat, Tympanoctomys barrerae (Octodontidae) 3 supports a tetraploid condition for this highly specialized ...
http://cea-news.tamu.edu/rnb/1999/1999-09-24.html

Radio News Briefs - September 24, 1999: Researchers at the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station and their counterparts in Chile and Argentina have found evidence that the red viscacha rat is a ...
http://www.worldwildlife.org/wildworld/profiles/terrestrial/nt/nt0802_full.html

Terrestrial Ecoregions -- Argentine Monte (NT0802): The red viscacha rat (Tympanoctomys barrerae) and the pichiciego (Chlamyphorus truncatus) are mammals endemic to this biome; they are also listed as vulnerable ...
http://www.press.jhu.edu/books/walkers_mammals_of_the_world/rodentia/images/image.rodentia.octodontidae.octomys.html

Thumbnails Page, Rodentia Octodontidae Octomys: Rodentia Octodontidae Octomys (Click on thumbnail to view larger image). Viscacha rat (Octomys mimax), photo by Michael Mares. (Click ...
http://www.press.jhu.edu/books/walkers_mammals_of_the_world/rodentia/images/image.mid.rodentia.octodontidae.octomys.mimax.1.html

Image Page, Rodentia Octodontidae Octomys: Rodentia Octodontidae Octomys. Viscacha rat (Octomys mimax), photo by Michael Mares. Return to Genus Copyright © 1997 by the Johns Hopkins University Press.
http://www.receptors.org/NR/seq/DR/Q80XG7.TABDR.html

NucleaRDB Cross References for Q80XG7: Description, Androgen receptor (Fragment). Gene, none. Organism, Tympanoctomys barrerae (Plains viscacha rat). Chromosomal location, -. Gene Ontology, QuickGO. ...
http://www.cofc.edu/~dillonr/Cytogenetics.html

GenetLec-Cytogenetics: Found in some lower invertebrates. One mammal, the red viscacha rat from Argentina. B) Aneuploidy - change in the number of chromosomes. ...
http://northonline.sccd.ctc.edu/anemone/Biology%20101/Lectures/week%205/cell%20cycle%20S04.htm

Cell Division: What about animals? • Very rare since most animals can’t self-fertilize. • The red viscacha rat from Argentina possibility?
http://www.systbot.uu.se/staff/m_popp/m_popp.html

Magnus Popp, Dept. Systematic Botany, Uppsala: Recently, polyploidy was detected in a mammal; the tetraploid red viscacha rat. Polyploids of hybrid origin are usually referred to as allopolyploids. ...
http://www.bioone.org/bioone/?request=get-abstract&issn=0022-2372&volume=084&issue=02&page=0541

PORTAL ORIENTATION AND ARCHITECTURE OF BURROWS IN <GENSP> ...: ABSTRACT. The red viscacha rat, Tympanoctomys barrerae, is an octodontid rodent endemic to the Monte and Patagonian deserts of Argentina. ...
http://www.bioone.org/bioone/?request=get-document&issn=0022-2372&volume=084&issue=02&page=0541

PORTAL ORIENTATION AND ARCHITECTURE OF BURROWS IN <GENSP> ...: Tympanoctomys barrerae, the red viscacha rat, is a rare octodontid rodent endemic to the provinces of Mendoza, La Pampa, and Neuquén, Argentina (Díaz et al. ...
http://www.zoo-tek.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=1958&st=10

Tek Forums -> ZOO TEK NATURE ENCYCLOPEDIA: ...html VICUGNAS http://www.geocities.com/professorpaul1/camels.html VISCACHAS http://www.geocities.com/professorpaul1/hystricognath2.html VISCACHA RAT http://www ...
http://arjournals.annualreviews.org/doi/full/10.1146/annurev.genom.1.1.117

Annual Review of Genomics and Human Genetics - 1(1):117 - Full ...: ...system. The recent discovery of the first living tetraploid mammal, the red viscacha rat (16), helps to make this theory attractive. ...
http://prodes.toulouse.inra.fr/srs6bin/cgi-bin/wgetz?-id+4xStn1Nl9qF+%5Bswisstrembl-AccNumber:O20546%5D+-e

Entry Page: Description, cytochrome b. Gene name(s), petb or petd or cytb. Organism source, Tympanoctomys barrerae (plains viscacha rat). Organism ...
http://home.earthlink.net/~misaak/taxonomy/taxEtym.html

Curiosities of Biological Nomenclature: Etymologies: Cracoviensia 12: 39]. Salinoctomys loschalchalerosorum Mares, Braun, Barquez & DĂ­az, 2000 (Chalchalero Viscacha rat) "named for the great Argentine folklore ...
http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~jslack/tj/mammalia_B_03-04-16.nh

((((('pronghorn')'pronghorn')'bovids',((('impala')'aepyceros')' ...: ...rat','sage_s rock rat')'aconaemys',('bridges_s degu','degu','moon-toothed degu')'octodon',('mountain degu')'long-tailed octodons',('viscacha rat')'viacacha rats ...
http://www.bioresearchonline.com/read/nl19990929/13062

Bioresearch Online News for bioresearch and life sciences ...: ...the Instituto de EcologĂ­a y EvoluciĂłn, Universidad Austral to Chile (Valdivia, Chile) have found evidence that the red viscacha rat (Tympanoctomys barrerae ...
http://www.place.dawsoncollege.qc.ca/~sdapollonia/General_Biology/genetics/genetics.htm

genetics: Station and the Instituto de EcologĂ­a y EvoluciĂłn, Universidad Austral to Chile (Valdivia, Chile) found that the red viscacha rat (Tympanoctomys barrerae ...
http://www.rickertweb.com/~justin/School/CS360%20Database%20Systems/PC4/Data/TAXON/HYSTRIC.txt

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