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Rattus rattus

Chordata › Mammalia › Rodentia › Muridae

21, 19haploid counts

Diploid number in the source: 42, 38

Conflicting counts This record lists more than one count.

The chart below uses the first one, 21. The sources are listed together under Sources.

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Other species in Rattus.

Sources

  1. Vinogradov, A.E. (1998a). Genome size and GC-percent in vertebrates as determined by flow cytometry: the triangular relationship. Cytometry 31: 100-109.
  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.

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

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