[ **up: [[Animals]] | [[Mammals]] | [[Rodents]] | [[Cricetidae (Family)]] | [[Lemmings|Arvicolinae (Subfamily)]] | [[Dicrostonyx (Genus)]]** ] --- # Arctic lemming --- ## Taxonomy - **[[Life (Biology)]]** - **[[Eukaryotes|Eukaryota (Domain)]]** - **[[Animals|Animalia (Kingdom)]]** - [[Chordates|Chordata (Phylum)]] - [[Mammals|Mammalia (Class)]] - [[Therians|Theria (Subclass)]] - [[Placentals|Eutheria (Infraclass)]] - [[Rodents|Rodentia (Order)]] - [[Cricetidae (Family)]] - [[Lemmings|Arvicolinae (Subfamily)]] - *[[Dicrostonyx (Genus)]]* - *[[Arctic lemming|Dicrostonyx torquatus]]* <small>ARCTIC LEMMING</small> --- ## Description ### Sex determination #### XX or XY females, and XY males [^1] [^1]: Frederic Veyrunes, et al., ‘[[Veyrunes, et al. 'A novel sex determination system in a close relative of the house mouse', 2010.|A novel sex determination system in a close relative of the house mouse]]’, *Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences*, vol. 277, issue 1684 (7 April 2010), p. 1050.