HUBEI AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES ›› 2022, Vol. 61 ›› Issue (20): 105-110.doi: 10.14088/j.cnki.issn0439-8114.2022.20.020

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Comparative study of two sexual dimorphisms of two species of Apodemus in the east of Zhangguangcailing

LI Dian-wei, MENG Fan-xing, LIU Jia-hui, LIU Yang, SHAN Hong-jia, JIN Zhi-min, YANG Bin-bin   

  1. College of Life Science and Technology, Mudanjiang Normal University, Mudanjiang 157011, Heilongjiang, China
  • Received:2022-01-17 Online:2022-10-25 Published:2022-11-23

Abstract: In order to understand the sexual heteromorphism of Apodemus peninsulae and Apodemus agrarius, the two dominant species of Apodemus peninsulae and Apodemus agrarius, which were distributed in the same region, were collected in the agricultural and forestry zone in the east of Zhangguangcailing in Heilongjiang Province. Apodemus agrarius, measured its external morphology and visceral characteristics and other morphological indicators, and compared their male and female dimorphisms. The results showed that the external morphology and visceral characteristics of the two species of Apodemus were not significantly different between the sexes, and they all belonged to hermaphroditism. The main morphological characteristics of males were slightly larger than those of females. The length of the forefoot, the weight of the heart and the weight of the spleen of the male Apodemus peninsulae were larger than those of the female. The male and female body length ratios of Apodemus peninsulae and Apodemus agrarius were 1.021 and 1.043, respectively. The body length hermaphrodite degree indexes were 0.021 and 0.041; the male and female body weight ratios were 1.065 and 1.161, and the hermaphrodite degree indexes were 0.061 and 0.139, respectively. Part of the local morphological characteristics of the two species of Apodemus were significantly positively correlated with their body length and weight.

Key words: sexual dimorphism, Apodemus peninsulae, Apodemus agrarius, morphological characteristics, sympatric distribution

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