The karyotypic features of two Japanese species of
Murina, Mu. aurata and Mu. leucogaster, were investigated in detail using conventional and G- and C-band stainings. Their karyotypes were identical with each other (2n=44, FN=56) . The comparison of conventionally stained and G-banded autosomal elements between two
Murinaspecies and
Myotis hosonoishowed no detectable difference in size, shape and band in the corresponding autosome pairs between both genera, except for the morphology of three medium-sized pairs (nos. 10-12; ST-elements in
Murinaand A-ones in
Myotis) and the banded segments around their centromeric regions. All of these ST-autosome pairs in
Murina, as well as the majority of other autosome ones, did not contain C-band materials, although most of the autosomal elements in
Myotis, including nos. 10-12 pairs, had a substantial amount of C-band materials mainly in their centromeric regions. Taking the karyological data mentioned above into consideration together with the phylogenetic relationship between
Murinaand
Myotis, it is suggested that the three pairs of ST-autosomes in
Murinahave evolved from the same-sized A-elements (nos. 10-12) of
Myotisby pericentric inversions, and the extensive deletion of heterochromatin has taken place also in the process of this karyotypic alteration or later.
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