Chromosomal diversity in three species of electric fish (Apteronotidae, Gymnotiformes) from the Amazon Basin

Cytogenetic studies were carried out on samples of Parapteronotus hasemani, Sternarchogiton preto and Sternarchorhamphus muelleri (Apteronotidae, Gymnotiformes) from the Amazon basin. The first two species exhibited both a 2n = 52 karyotype, but differed in their karyotypic formulae, distribution of...

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Main Authors: Fernando Henrique Ramos Silva, Julio Cesar Pieczarka, Adauto Lima Cardoso, Patrícia Corrêa da Silva, Jonas Alves de Oliveira, Cleusa Yoshiko Nagamachi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Genética 2014-11-01
Series:Genetics and Molecular Biology
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1415-47572014000500006&tlng=en