Columba livia

8, 40haploid counts

Diploid number in the source: 16, 80

Conflicting counts This record lists more than one count.

The chart below uses the first one, 8. The sources are listed together under Sources.

Closest relatives

No other species in Columba. Species in the same family, Columbidae:

Tiersch, T.R. and S.S. Wachtel (1991). On the evolution of genome size of birds. Journal of Heredity 82: 363-368.
Makino, S. (1951). An atlas of the chromosome numbers in animals. Iowa State College Press, Ames.
Venturini, G., R. D'Ambrogi, and E. Capanna (1986). Size and structure of the bird genome. I. DNA content of 48 species of Neognathae. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology 85B: 61-65.

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

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