Submitted by TheBloxyBloxGuy t3_11mdtz4 in askscience
EmilyU1F984 t1_jbiez6f wrote
Reply to comment by tiffCAKE in Is there a fertile creature with an odd number of chromosomes? by TheBloxyBloxGuy
Do you want to see something interesting? Check out the Indian Muntjac:
The X fragment is always fused to the autosome, while the Y chromosome stays unfused. So 2n is 6 in females and 7 in males.
Their close relative the Chinese muntjac has 2n=46
And they can interbreed with sterile offspring.
Like an n=3 gamete can fuse with an n=23 gametes and it ‚works‘
They both come from n=70 ancestral deer.
The Indian one just went let’s fuse all the chromosomes.
https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/cytologia/70/1/70_1_71/_pdf
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