Q-band chromosome studies were done in 3 molar conceptuses and their parents, with special attention to six pairs of chromosomes (No. 3, 13--15, 21, and 22) in which polymorphic variants occur frequently. Those six pairs of chromosomes were uniformly homomorphic in moles, whereas at least one of them was heteromorphic in both paternal and maternal cells. Closer analyses provided evidence strongly suggesting that the moles inherited two morphologically identical haploid sets from the father and none from the mother. Thus androgenesis seemed causally related to pathogenesis of complete hydatidiform moles.

A karyotypic comparison between the blue fox and the silver fox revealed conservation of the chromosome arm as a unit, except for large heterochromatic blocks in 10 pairs of blue fox chromosomes and the complete absence of a common metacentric autosomal pair. This finding seems to indicate that their karyotypes evolved from a common ancestral karyotype, characterized by 70–76 acrocentric autosomes, mainly through a series of independent centric fusions.

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