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. 1969 Mar 1;10(1):44–47. doi: 10.1186/BF03548295

A Note on the Somatic Y Chromosome of Reindeer (Rangifer Tarandus L.)

En anteckning om den somatiska Y-kromosomen hos ren (Rangifer tarandus L.)

Ingemar Gustavsson 1,✉, Carl Olov Sundt 1
PMCID: PMC8741067  PMID: 5355182

Abstract

Recently a report on the reindeer chromosomes was published (Nes et al. 1965). The chromosome complement was described as consisting of 70 autosomes and a sex chromosome set of the XY-type. All autosomes were acrocentric except one pair which was submetacentric. The X was found to be submetacentric and also the largest chromosome of the complement. The Y was characterized as being the smallest acrocentric chromosome, and the authors stated that the Y chromosome could only occasionally be distinguished from the autosomes by its shorter length.

In our studies of the same species we have found a quite different appearance concerning the Y chromosome.

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