Cytogenetic studies in fishes of the genera Hassar, Platydoras and Opsodoras (Doradidae, Siluriformes) from Jarí and Xingú Rivers, Brazil

Cytogenetic studies in fishes of the genera Hassar, Platydoras and Opsodoras (Doradidae, Siluriformes) from Jarí and Xingú Rivers, Brazil

We studied the karyotypes of Hassar cf. orestis and an undescribed Hassar species from the Jarí River and Opsodoras ternetzi, H. orestis and Platydoras cf. costatus from the Xingú River, all with 2n = 58. Constitutive heterochromatin is located in the centromere in most metacentric pairs; in some ch...

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Main Authors: Susana Suely Rodrigues Milhomem, Augusto Cesar Paes de Souza, Aline Lira do Nascimento, Jaime Ribeiro Carvalho Jr., Eliana Feldberg, Julio Cesar Pieczarka, Cleusa Yoshiko Nagamachi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Genética 2008-01-01
Series:Genetics and Molecular Biology
Subjects:
chromosomes
Amazon
biodiversity
Siluriformes
banding
fluorochromes
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