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Pongo pygmaeus

Chordata › Mammalia › Primates › Hominidae

24haploid

Diploid number in the source: 48

Closest relatives

No other species in Pongo. Species in the same family, Hominidae:

Sources

  1. Pellicciari, C., E. Ronchetti, R. Tori, D. Formenti, and M.G.M. Romanini (1990b). Cytochemical evaluation of C-heterochromatic-DNA in metaphase chromosomes. Basic and Applied Histochemistry 34: 79-85
  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.
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