Ellobius Explained

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.^{[1] [2]}

The genus has the following species:

• Alai mole vole (Ellobius alaicus)
• Northern mole vole (Ellobius talpinus)
• Zaisan mole vole (Ellobius tancrei)

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

• Southern mole vole (Bramus fuscocapillus)
• Transcaucasian mole vole (Bramus lutescens)

See also

• Tokudaia another mammal genus that has lost the Y-chromosome

Notes and References

1. Bagheri-Fam, S. Sox9 gene regulation and the loss of the XY/XX sex-determining mechanism in the mole vole Ellobius lutescens.. Chromosome Research. January 2012. 20. 1. 22215485. 10.1007/s10577-011-9269-5. 191–9. etal. free.
2. 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 . en . 4 . 1 . 55–66 . 10.3897/compcytogen.v4i1.25 . 1993-078X. free .