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Xiphophorus montezumae

Chordata › Actinopterygii › Cyprinodontiformes › Poeciliidae

24haploid

Diploid number in the source: 48

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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. Dawley, R.M., J.D. Rupprecht, and R.J. Schultz (1997). Genome size of bisexual and unisexual Poeciliopsis. Journal of Heredity 88: 249-252.
  3. Makino, S. (1951). An atlas of the chromosome numbers in animals. Iowa State College Press, Ames.
  4. Hinegardner, R. and D.E. Rosen (1972). Cellular DNA content and the evolution of teleostean fishes. American Naturalist 106: 621-644.
  5. 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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