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Xiphophorus maculatus

Chordata › Actinopterygii › Cyprinodontiformes › Poeciliidae

24haploid

Diploid number in the source: 48

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Sources

  1. 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.
  2. Hinegardner, R. and D.E. Rosen (1972). Cellular DNA content and the evolution of teleostean fishes. American Naturalist 106: 621-644.
  3. Makino, S. (1951). An atlas of the chromosome numbers in animals. Iowa State College Press, Ames.
  4. Tiersch, T.R. and R.W. Chandler (1989). Chicken erythrocytes as an internal reference for analysis of DNA content by flow cytometry in grass carp. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 118: 713-717.
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