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Latimeria chalumnae

Chordata › Sarcopterygii › Coelacanthiformes › Latimeriidae

24haploid

Diploid number in the source: 48

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No relatives with counts in this release.

Sources

  1. Cimino, M.C. (1974). The nuclear DNA content of diploid and triploid Poeciliopsis and other poeciliid fishes with reference to the evolution of unisexual forms. Chromosoma 47: 297-307.
  2. Atkin, N. B., Mattinson, G., Beçak, W., & Ohno, S. (1965). The comparative DNA content of 19 species of placental mammals, reptiles, and birds. Chromosoma, 17(1), 1-10
  3. 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.
  4. Atkin et al (1965) Chromosoma 17:1-10
  5. Ohno (1967) Sex chromosomes and sex-linked genes. Springer. Berlin
  6. Huang & Clark (1969) Chromosoma 26: 245-253
  7. Jackson &amp
  8. Barr (1969) Mamm Chrom Newsletter 10: 250
  9. Stock (1972) Canad. J. Genet. Cytol. 14: 859-868
  10. A. B. Chiarelli, E. Capanna. (1975). Cytotaxonomy and Vertebrate Evolution. The Quarterly Review of Biology, 50(1), 85.
  11. Ohno (1967) Sex chromosomes and sex-linked genes. Springer. Berlin, Huang & Clark (1969) Chromosoma 26: 245-253
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