Somatic Chromosomes of the Rabbit

Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica - Tập 5 - Trang 362-369 - 1964
Ingemar Gustavsson1
1Department of Animal Genetics, Nutrition and Hygiene, Royal Veterinary College, Stockholm, Sweden

Tóm tắt

The number of chromosomes of the rabbit was determined at 44, and both the X and the Y chromosomes have submedially situated centromeres. X is of medium size while Y is one of the smallest chromosomes of the complement. For practical purposes, the chromosomes have been divided into groups according to their appearance.

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