Abstract
Skin biopsies from one male and two female foxes from Greenland were used. The male had an apparent centric fusion of two acrocentric elements displayed as the last pair of autosomes.
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Hsu, T.C., Benirschke, K. (1973). Alopex lagopus (Arctic fox). In: An Atlas of Mammalian Chromosomes. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-9826-7_33
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