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Passer domesticus

Chordata › Aves › Passeriformes › Passeridae

23, 20, 21, 22, 24, 27, 28, 29, 30, 38haploid counts

Diploid number in the source: 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 76

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The chart below uses the first one, 23. The sources are listed together under Sources.

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Other species in Passer.

Sources

  1. De Smet, W.H.O. (1981). The nuclear Feulgen-DNA content of the vertebrates (especially reptiles), as measured by fluorescence cytophotometry, with notes on the cell and chromosome size. Acta Zoologica et Pathologica Antverpiensia 76: 119-167.

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

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