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Carausius morosus

Arthropoda › Insecta › Phasmida › Phasmatidae
Listed in the source as Dixippus morosus

30, 31, 32, 33haploid counts

Diploid number in the source: 60, 62, 63, 64, 65

Conflicting counts This record lists more than one count.

The chart below uses the first one, 30. The sources are listed together under Sources.

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Other species in Carausius.

Sources

  1. Makino, S. (1951). An atlas of the chromosome numbers in animals. Iowa State College Press, Ames.
  2. Ashman, T. L., Bachtrog, D., Blackmon, H., Goldberg, E. E., Hahn, M. W., Kirkpatrick, M., et al. (2014). Tree of Sex: A database of sexual systems. Scientific Data, 1, 140015.
  3. Pijnacker, L. P., & Ferwerda, M. A. (1980). Sex chromosomes and origin of males and sex mosaics of the parthenogenetic stick insect Carausius morosus Br.Chromosoma,79(1), 105-114.Sylvester, Terrence and Heath Blackmon. 2019. Idiosycratic patterns of chromosome evolution are the rule not the exception.
  4. White MJD (1976) Animal Cytogenetics: Blattodea, Mantodea, Isoptera, Grylloblattodea, Phasmatodea, Dermaptera and Embioptera. Berlin: Gebruder Borntraeger.Sylvester, Terrence and Heath Blackmon. 2019. Idiosycratic patterns of chromosome evolution are the rule not the exception.

The sources are listed together. The data does not say which source reports which count.

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