Variation of the centromeric heterochromatin region (CHR) in the Iranian house mouse Mus musculus Linnaeus, 1758 (Rodentia: Muridae)

Figures & data

Figure 1. Map of collection sites of M. musculus in Iran. Black boxes are marked with the name of the cities where mice were captured in this study.

Table 1. Locality and taxon name of studied individuals of M. musculus.

Ref. used for identification	Taxon	Latitude °N	Longitude °E	Locality
Siahsarvie et al. (2012), Shabani et al. (2010), Bonhomme et al. (2007), Rajabi-Maham et al. (2012)	M. m. musculus	36° 18′ 0″	59° 36′ 0″	Mashhad
Shabani et al. (2010), Rajabi-Maham et al. (2012)	M. m. musculus	34° 21′ 10″	58° 41′ 1″	Gonabad
Siahsarvie et al. (2012), Rajabi-Maham et al. (2012)	M. m. musculus	35° 14′ 38″	60° 37′ 21″	Torbate Jam
Siahsarvie et al. (2012), Rajabi-Maham et al. (2012)	M. m. musculus	36° 32′ 42″	61° 9′ 28″	Sarakhs
Darvish, Orth et al. (2006), Rajabi-Maham et al. (2012)	M. m. musculus	37° 26′ 40″	59° 6′ 29″	Dargaz
Darvish, Orth et al. (2006), Rajabi-Maham et al. (2012)	M. m. musculus	36° 59′ 33.01″	56° 45′ 23″	Kalat
Rajabi-Maham et al. (2012)	M. m. musculus	34°08′ 59″	58°38′21″	Kakhk
Darvish et al. (2006), Rajabi-Maham et al. (2012)	M. m. musculus	37° 73′ 03″	57° 50′ 72″	Esfarayen
Darvish et al. (2006), Rajabi-Maham et al. (2012)	M. m. musculus	36° 20′ 48″	58° 10′ 48″	Neyshabour
Siahsarvie et al. (2012), Rajabi-Maham et al. (2012)	M. m. castaneus	32° 60′ 35″	51° 60′ 36″	Isfahan
Rajabi-Maham et al. (2012)	M. m. castaneus	29° 29′ 47″	60° 51′ 46″	Zahedan
Rajabi-Maham et al. (2012)	M. m. castaneus	28° 13′ 16″	61° 12′ 57″	Khash
Siahsarvie et al. (2012), Shabani et al. (2010),	M. m. castaneus	31° 1′ 43″	61° 49′ 4″	Zabol
Shabani et al. (2010), Rajabi-Maham et al. (2012)	M. m. castaneus	29° 61′ 0″	52° 54′ 0″	Shiraz
Rajabi-Maham et al. (2012)	M. m. castaneus	31° 53′ 50″	54° 22′ 4″	Yazd
Darvish (2008), Shabani et al. (2010)	Close to castaneus	32° 87′ 0″	59° 20′ 0″	Birjand
Rajabi-Maham et al. (2012)	M. m. domesticus	37° 33′ 19″	45° 04′ 21″	Uromia
Rajabi-Maham et al. (2012)	M. m. domesticus	30° 54′ 32″	49° 11′ 58″	Mahshahr
Rajabi-Maham et al. (2012)	M. m. domesticus	30°7′ 0″	51° 31′ 0″	Mamasani
Rajabi-Maham et al. (2012)	M. m. domesticus	25° 17′ 31″	60° 64′ 35″	Chabahar

Table 2. Descriptive statistics of all chromosomes of all individual of house mouse for CHR regions.

	N	Range	Minimum	Maximum	Mean		Standard deviation	Variance
					Statistic	Standard error
CH.1	103	3.37	6.83	10.20	8.3231	0.13405	1.07241	1.150
CH.2	103	3.80	7.10	10.90	8.2491	0.16089	1.28714	1.657
CH.3	103	7.00	6.00	13.00	9.5298	0.28311	2.26486	5.130
CH.4	103	17.40	4.80	22.20	11.1373	0.81147	6.49178	42.143
CH.5	103	12.20	5.60	17.80	9.5786	0.44499	3.55995	12.673
CH.6	103	11.64	6.16	17.80	8.7350	0.37127	2.97014	8.822
CH.7	103	15.83	3.37	19.20	7.7378	0.48921	3.91368	15.317
CH.8	103	12.09	5.11	17.20	7.8989	0.39058	3.12467	9.764
CH.9	103	14.38	4.12	18.50	6.7545	0.47083	3.76667	14.188
CH.10	103	17.57	1.56	19.13	7.9364	0.52318	4.18546	17.518
CH.11	103	19	4	23	8.86	0.582	4.655	21.670
CH.12	103	10.76	5.95	16.71	8.3586	0.35645	2.85157	8.131
CH.13	103	9.80	6.00	15.80	8.9614	0.28039	2.24311	5.032
CH.14	103	18.20	3.12	21.32	7.7502	0.52849	4.22793	17.875
CH.15	103	16.14	0.97	17.11	5.9805	0.59489	4.75908	22.649
CH.16	103	12.01	4.10	16.11	7.3066	0.36232	2.89855	8.402
CH.17	103	6.97	1.14	8.11	5.1097	0.37552	3.00412	9.025
CH.18	103	9.10	4.90	14.00	8.3189	0.43653	3.49221	12.196
CH.19	103	16.32	1.88	18.20	5.5117	0.55818	4.46544	19.940
CH.X	103	2.54	6.32	8.86	7.9955	0.09607	0.76853	0.591
Valid N (listwise)	103

Figure 2. C-banded karyotypes of the house mouse. (A) Mashhad (M. m. musculus); (B) Zabol (Close to castaneus); (C) Shiraz (M. m. castaneus); (D) Uromia (M. m. domesticus). Bar = 4 μm.

Table

		Sum of squares	df	Mean square	F	Significance
CH.1	Between groups	72.380	6	12.063	9.312E3	0.000
	Within groups	0.074	57	0.001
	Total	72.454	63
CH.2	Between groups	104.225	6	17.371	6.639E3	0.000
	Within groups	0.149	57	0.003
	Total	104.374	63
CH.3	Between groups	322.460	6	53.743	4.353E3	0.000
	Within groups	0.704	57	0.012
	Total	323.164	63
CH.4	Between groups	2654.796	6	442.466	1.103E5	0.000
	Within groups	0.229	57	0.004
	Total	2655.024	63
CH.5	Between groups	797.175	6	132.863	6.101E3	0.000
	Within groups	1.241	57	0.022
	Total	798.416	63
CH.6	Between groups	555.077	6	92.513	7.614E3	0.000
	Within groups	0.693	57	0.012
	Total	555.770	63
CH.7	Between groups	964.772	6	160.795	4.835E4	0.000
	Within groups	0.190	57	0.003
	Total	964.962	63
CH.8	Between groups	614.945	6	102.491	3.676E4	0.000
	Within groups	0.159	57	0.003
	Total	615.104	63
CH.9	Between groups	893.729	6	148.955	8.168E4	0.000
	Within groups	0.104	57	0.002
	Total	893.833	63
CH.10	Between groups	1103.492	6	183.915	7.133E4	0.000
	Within groups	0.147	57	0.003
	Total	1103.638	63
CH.11	Between groups	1365.020	6	227.503	7.095E4	0.000
	Within groups	0.183	57	0.003
	Total	1365.202	63
CH.12	Between groups	512.055	6	85.342	2.147E4	0.000
	Within groups	0.227	57	0.004
	Total	512.281	63
CH.13	Between groups	316.846	6	52.808	2.148E4	0.000
	Within groups	0.140	57	0.002
	Total	316.986	63
CH.14	Between groups	1126.086	6	187.681	1.746E5	0.000
	Within groups	0.061	57	0.001
	Total	1126.148	63
CH.15	Between groups	1426.716	6	237.786	8.259E4	0.000
	Within groups	0.164	57	0.003
	Total	1426.880	63
CH.16	Between groups	529.229	6	88.205	6.861E4	0.000
	Within groups	0.073	57	0.001
	Total	529.302	63
CH.17	Between groups	567.682	6	94.614	2.364E4	0.000
	Within groups	0.228	57	0.004
	Total	567.911	63
CH.18	Between groups	768.171	6	128.028	4.889E4	0.000
	Within groups	0.149	57	0.003
	Total	768.320	63
CH.19	Between groups	1256.119	6	209.353	1.069E5	0.000
	Within groups	0.112	57	0.002
	Total	1256.231	63
CH.X	Between groups	37.129	6	6.188	4.368E3	0.000
	Within groups	0.081	57	0.001
	Total	37.210	63

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