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Acipenser oxyrinchus
| 2n=99-112 Li MF. Marrayatt V. Annand C. Odense P. 1985. Fish cell culture: two newly developed cell lines from Atlantic sturgeon (Acipenser oxyrhynchus) and guppy (Poecilia reticulata). Can. J. Zool. 63: 2867-2874 Abstract |
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2n=121±3; 78 m+sm, 44a+mc, 200 FN |
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m = metacentric; sm = submetacentric; a = acrocentric; mc = micro chromosomes; FN = fondamental number
Acipenser persicus
| 2n>200 Nowruzfashkhami M. R. 1996. On the Karyotypes of Acipenser persicus, A. stellatus and Huso huso from the Iranian Waters of the Caspian Sea. Sturg. Quat. 4 (3): 7. |
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258±4; 134 m+sm, 128 a+mc, 386 NF |
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| Nowruzfashkhami MR. Kazemi B, Jahani M, Pourkazemi M, Wazeeri-Nasab H, Azizzadeh L. 2009. Chromosomal location of satellite DNA family in Acipenser persicus. 6th International Symposium on Sturgeon. October 25-31, Wuhan, Hubei Province, China. Book of Abstracts, Oral Presentations 77-78. Abstract |
m = metacentric; sm = submetacentric; a = acrocentric; mc = micro chromosomes; FN = fondamental number
Acipenser ruthenus
| 2n=60±2; 40 m+sm, 20 a, 100 FN Only macrochromosomes were counted Serebryakova EV. 1972. Some data on the chromosome complexes in Acipenseridae.. In: Genetics, Selection, and Hybridization of Fish. (Ed. B.I. Cherfas). Translated from Russian by Israel Program for Scientific Translations. Keter Press Binding: Wiener Bindery Ltd. Jerusalem. pp. 98-106 |
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2n=116±4; 66 m+sm, 40 a+mc, 172 FN |
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2n=109-112; 159-165 NF |
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| 2n=118±2; 82 m+sm, 36 a+mc, 200 FN Vasiliev VP. 1985. Evolutionary karyology of fishes. Nauka Press, Moscow. 126-139. (in Russian). |
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| 2n=118±4; 58 m+sm, 4 a, 56±4 mc, 176±4 FN Rab P. 1986. A note on the karyotype on the sterlet, Acipenser ruthenus (Pishes, Acipenseridae). Folia Zool. 35(1): 73-78 Abstract |
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| 2n=118±2; 82±4 m+sm, 118±2 + 82±4 FN Birstein VJ. Vasiliev VP. 1987. Tetraploid-octoploid relationships and karyological evolution in the order Acipenseriformes (Pishes): karyotypes, nucleoli, and nucleolus-organizer regions in four acipenserid species. Genetica 73: 3-12 Abstract |
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| 2n=117.3±0.6; 57.2±0.3 m, 60.1±0.7 a, 174.6±0.7 FN Arefjev VA. 1989. Karyotype variability in successive generations after hybridization between the great sturgeon, Huso huso (L.), and the sterlet, Acipenser ruthenus. L. J. Fish Biol. 35: 819-828 Abstract |
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2n=118±4 |
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2n=118±9 |
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| 2n=118±4; 58 m+sm, 4a, 52-60 mc Ráb P. Arefjev VA. Rábova M. 1996. C-banded karyotype of the sterlet, Acipenser ruthenus, from the Danube River. Sturg. Quart., 4(4): 10-12 Abstract |
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| Fontana F. Lanfredi M. Chicca M. Aiello V. Rossi R. 1998. Localization of the repetitive telomeric sequence(TTAGGG)n in four sturgeon species. Chrom. Res. 6: 303-306 Abstract | |
| 2n=118±2; 58 m+sm, 4a, 56±2mc Suciu R. Ene C. 1998. A note on the karyotype of the sterlet Acipenser ruthenus Linnaeus, 1758 (Pisces, Acipenseridae) from the romanian stretch of Danube River. Extended abstracts of contributions presented at the International Symposium Aquarom 98/Galati: 318-321 Abstract |
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| 2n=118±4 Fontana F. Lanfredi M. Chicca M. Congiu L. Tagliavini J. Rossi R. 1999. Fluorescent in situ hybridization with rDNA probes on chromosomes of Acipenser ruthenus and Acipenser naccarii (Osteichthyes Acipenseriformes). Genome 42: 1008-1012 Abstract |
m = metacentric; sm = submetacentric; a = acrocentric; mc = micro chromosomes FN = fondamental number
Acipenser sinensis
| 2n=264±; 78 m, 20 sm, 166 a+mc, 362 FN Yu X. Zhou T. Li K. Li Y. and Zhou M. 1987. On the karyosystematics of cyprinid fishes and a summary of fish chromosome studies in China. Genetica 72: 225-236 Abstract |
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| 2n=156-276 Ye XH, Liu HQ, Yu XM, Zhang YB, Chang JB.1999. Preliminary research on tissue culture of Chinese sturgeon. Acta Hydrobiology Sinica 23, 566-571. (In Chinese) Abstract |
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2n=264 (mode) |
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m = metacentric; sm = submetacentric; a = acrocentric; mc = micro chromosomes; FN = fondamental number
Acipenser schrenckii
| 2n=240 Vasiliev VP. Sokolov LI. Serebryakova EV. 1980. Karyotype of the Siberian sturgeon Acipenser baeri Brandt from the Lena River and some questions of the acipenserid karyotypic evolution. Vopr. Ikhtiol. 23: 814-822 Abstract |
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| 2n=238±8; 84 m+sm, 28 st, 120 a+mc, 328 FN Song, S. Liu H. Sun D. Fan Z. 1997. The karyotype and cellular DNA contents of Amur sturgeon (Acipenser schrencki). Hereditas (Beijing). 19: 5-8 (in Chinese). Abstract |
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2n=266±4; 92 m+sm, 358±4 FN |
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m = metacentric; sm = submetacentric; st = subtelocentric; a = acrocentric; mc = micro chromosomes; FN = fondamental number
Acipenser sturio
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2n=116±4; 70 m+sm, 42a+mc, 182 FN |
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| 2n=121±3; 78 m+sm, 43a+mc, 198 FN Tagliavini J. Williot P. Congiu L. Chicca M. Lanfredi M. Rossi R. Fontana F. 1999. Molecular cytogenetic analysis of the karyotype of the European Atlantic sturgeon, Acipenser sturio. Heredity 83: 520-525 Abstract |
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Fontana F. 2011. Cytogenetics as a tool for an exploration of A. sturio status within sturgeons. In Biology and Conservation of the European Sturgeon Acipenser sturio L. 1758. Eds P. Williot, E. Rochard, N. Desse-Berset, F. Kirschbaum & J. Gessner. Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg. pp. 13-21 Abstract |
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m = metacentric; sm = submetacentric; a = acrocentric; mc = micro chromosomes; FN = fondamental number
Acipenser stellatus
| 2n=109-112; 159-165 NF Burtzev JA. Nikoljukin NJ. Serebryakova EV. 1976. Karyology of the Acipenseridae family in relation to the hybridization and taxonomy problems. Acta Biol. Jugosl. Ser. Ichthyologia 8: 27-34 Abstract |
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| 2n=118±2; 70 m+sm, 48 a+mc, 188 FN Vasiliev VP. 1985. Evolutionary karyology of fishes. Nauka Press, Moscow. 126-139. (in Russian). |
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| 2n=118±2; 70±4 m+sm, (118±2)+(70±4) FN Birstein VJ. Vasiliev VP. 1987. Tetraploid-octoploid relationships and karyological evolution in the order Acipenseriformes (Pishes): karyotypes, nucleoli, and nucleolus-organizer regions in four acipenserid species. Genetica 73: 3-12 Abstract |
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2n=118±1, 356 FN |
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| 2n=118±2; 186±2 FN Suciu R. Ene C. 1996. Karyological study of the stellate sturgeon, Acipenser stellatus, from the Danube River. Sturg. Quart. 4(3): 14-15 |
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2n=114 |
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2n=146±6; 72 m+sm, 74 a+mc, 218 FN |
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m = metacentric; sm = submetacentric chromosomes; FN = fondamental number
Acipenser transmontanus
| 2n=237-243 Hedrick RP. McDowell TS. Rosemarck R. Aronstein D. Lannan C.N. 1991. Two cell lines from white sturgeon. Trans. Am. Fish Soc. 120: 528-534 Abstract |
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| 2n=248±8; 104 m+sm, 144 a+mc, 352 FN Fontana F. 1994. Chromosomal nucleolar organizer regions in four sturgeon species as markers of karyotype evolution in Acipenseriformes (Pisces). Genome 37: 888-892 Abstract |
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| 2n=226-288 Sola L. Cordisco C. Bressanello S. Cataudella S. 1994. Cytogenetic characterization of the North American white sturgeon Acipenser transmontanus (Pisces, Acipenseridae). In: Proc. VIII Congr. SEI: 64-65 Abstract |
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2n=246±10 |
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| Vaneenennaam AL. Murray JD. Medrano JF. 1998. Synaptonemal complex analysis in spermatocytes of white sturgeon, Acipenser transmontanus Richardson (Pisces, Acipenseridae), a fish with a very high chromosome number. Genome 41: 51-61 Abstract |  |
| 2n=271±2.5; 132 m+sm, 44 a, 98 mc, 306 FN Vaneenennaam AL. Murray JD. Medrano JF. 1998. Mitotic analysis of the North American white sturgeon, Acipenser transmontanus Richardson (Pisces, Acipenseridae), a fish with a very high chromosome number. Genome 41:266-271 Abstract |
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| 2n=256±6 Wang G. Lapatra S. Zeng L. Zhao Z. Lu Y. 2003. Establishment, growth, cryopreservation and species of origin identification of three cell lines from white sturgeon, Acipenser transmontanus. Meth. Cell. Sci. 25: 211–220 Abstract |
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| Gille DA.Famula TR.May BP.Schreier AD. 2015. Evidence for a maternal origin of spontaneous autopolyploidy in cultured white sturgeon (Acipenser transmontanus). Aquaculture, 435: 467-474 Abstract |
m = metacentric; sm = submetacentric; a = acrocentric; mc = micro chromosomes; FN = fondamental number
Polyodon spathula
| 2n=120; 32 m, 8 sm, 8 a, 72 mc, 160 FN Dingerkus G. Howell WM. 1976. Karyotypic analysis and evidence of tetraploidy in the North American paddlefish, Polyodon spathula. Science 194: 842 844 Abstract |
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2n=120; 48 m+sm, 72 mc |
m = metacentric; sm = submetacentric; a = acrocentric; mc = micro chromosomes; FN = fondamental number
Scaphirhynchus platorynchus
| 2n=112; 50 m, 14 a, 48 mc, 162 FN Ohno S. Muramoto J. Stenius C. Christian L. Kitterell WA. 1969. Microchromosomes in holocephalian, chondrostean and holostean fishes. Chromosoma 26: 35-40 Abstract |
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m = metacentric; a = acrocentric; mc = micro chromosomes; FN = fondamental number
Huso dauricus
| 2n=60 Only macrochromosomes were counted Burtzev JA. Nikoljukin NJ. Serebryakova EV. 1973 Kariology of family Acipenseridae in connection with questions of hybridization and taxonomy. First European Ichthyological Congress. Sarajevo. Yugoslavia |
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| 2n=270 Vasil’ev VP. Vasil’eva ED. Shedko SV. Novomodny GV. 2008. Karyotypes of the kaluga Huso dauricus and Sakhalin sturgeon Acipenser mikadoi (Acipenseridae, Pisces). In: Bioraznoobrazie I dinamika genofondov. Materialy otchetnoi konferentsii. Moscow: RAN. P. 19-21 |
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2n=268±4; 100 m+sm, 368±4 FN Vasil’ev VP. Vasil’eva ED. Shedko SV. Novomodny GV. 2009. Ploidy levels in the kaluga Huso dauricus and sakhalin sturgeon Acipenser mikadoi (Acipenseridae, Pisces). Doklady Biological Sciences, 426: 228-231 |
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2n=268±4; 100 m+sm, 368±4 FN |
Huso huso
| 2n=60±2; 38 m+sm, 22 a, 98 FN Only macrochromosomes were counted Serebryakova EV. 1972. Some data on the chromosome complexes in Acipenseridae.. In: Genetics, Selection, and Hybridization of Fish. (Ed. B.I. Cherfas). Translated from Russian by Israel Program for Scientific Translations. Keter Press Binding: Wiener Bindery Ltd. Jerusalem. pp. 98-106 |
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| 2n=116±4; 68 m+sm, 46 a, 182 FN Fontana F. Colombo G. 1974. The chromosomes of Italian sturgeons. Experientia 30: 739-742 Abstract |
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| 2n=109-112; 159-165 NF Burtzev JA. Nikoljukin NJ. Serebryakova EV. 1976. Karyology of the Acipenseridae family in relation to the hybridization and taxonomy problems. Acta Biol. Jugosl. Ser. Ichthyologia 8: 27-34 Abstract |
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| 2n=118±3; 62±4 m, 6 a, 50±3 mc, 180±4 FN Serebryakova EV. Arefjev VA. Vasiliev VP. Sokolov L.I. 1983. The study of the karyotype of giant sturgeon, Huso huso (L.) (Acipenseridae , Chondrostei) with reference to their systematic position. In Genetics of Commercial Fishes and Aquaculture Objects. pp 63-69, Moscow Abstract |
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| Arefjev VA, Panov AD. 1984. Some problems of the chromosome distribution in the metaphase plates of great sturgeon, Huso huso (L) Genetika 20 (8): 1374-1379 1984 Abstract | |
| 2n=118±2; 60±2 m+sm, (118±2)+(60±2) FN Birstein VJ. Vasiliev VP. 1987. Tetraploid-octoploid relationships and karyological evolution in the order Acipenseriformes (Pishes): karyotypes, nucleoli, and nucleolus-organizer regions in four acipenserid species. Genetica 73: 3-12 Abstract |
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| 2n=118.6±0.5; 61.5±0.3 m, 57.9±0.5 a, (177.9±0.6) FN Arefjev VA. 1989. Karyotype variability in successive generations after hybridization between the great sturgeon, Huso huso (L.), and the sterlet, Acipenser ruthenus. L. J. Fish Biol. 35: 819-828 Abstract |
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| 2n=117.6±0.4; 61.2±0.2 m, 57.6±0.6 a, (178.2±0.5) FN Arefjev VA. Nikolaev AI. 1991. Cytological analysis of the reciprocal hybrids between low- and high-chromosome acipenserids, the great sturgeon, Huso huso (L.), and the Russian sturgeon, Acipenser gueldenstaedti Brandt. Cytologia 56: 495-502 Abstract |
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| Arefjev VA. 1993. NOR-banding studies of Acipenser baeri karyotype. Abstract Bulletin Internatrional Symposium on sturgeons Moscow, September 6-11, 1993. VNIRO, Moscow-Kostroma-Moscow, Russia. pp 30-31 Abstract | |
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2n=116±1, 356 FN |
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| 2n=120±8 Fontana F. Rossi R. Lanfredi M. Arlati G. Bronzi P. 1997. Cytogenetic characterization of cell lines from three sturgeon species. Caryologia 50: 91-95 Abstract |
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| 2n=118±2; 84 m+sm, 34 a+mc, 202 FN Fontana F. Tagliavini J. Congiu L. Lanfredi M. Chicca M. Laurenti C. Rossi R. 1998 - Karyotypic characterization of the great sturgeon, Huso huso, by multiple staining techniques and fluorescent in situ hybridization. Mar. Biol. 132: 495-501 Abstract |
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| 2n=117 Nowruz Fashkhami MR. Khosroshahi M. 1999. Karyotype study on stellate and great sturgeon by leukocyte culture. J. Appl. Ichthyol. 15: 283. Abstract |
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Nikoljukin N.I. 1966. Some questions of cytogenetics, hybridization and systematics of the Acipenseridae. Genetika (USSR), 5: 25-27 Abstract |
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Arefjev, V.A. 1989. Increase of karyotypic variability iomn sturgeon hybrids. 6 p. In: Book of Abstracts, Premier Colloque International Sur L`esturgeon, Bordeaux, 3-6. October 1989. Published by Cemagref, 98 pp Abstract |
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| Arefjev VA. 1999. Cytogenetics of interploid hybridization of sturgeons. J. Appl. Ichthyol. 15: 277 Abstract | |
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Flajšhans M. Vajcová V. 2000. Odd ploidy levels in sturgeon suggest a backcross of interspecific hexaploid sturgeon hybrids to evolutionary tetraploid and/or octaploid parental species. Folia Zool. 49(2): 133-138 Abstract |
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| Ene AC. Suciu R. 2001. Karyological investigation in natural hybrids of sturgeons of the lower Danube River. 10th European Congress of Ichthyology. Prague. (P 34) Abstract | |
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Birstein VJ. 2002. Sturgeon Species and Hybrids: Can Hybrids Produce Caviar? Environ. Policy Law. 32: 210- 214 |
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Symonová R. Flajšhans M. Gela D. Rodina M. Pelikanova Š. Rabova M. Rab P. Sturgeons are pretty polyploid: hybrid and ploidy diversity in sturgeons. International meeting on the genetics of polyploids. Lisbon, Portugal 11 - 12 november 2010 Abstract |
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| 2n=60±2; 40 m+sm, 20 a, 100 FN Only macrochromosomes were counted Serebryakova EV. 1972. Some data on the chromosome complexes in Acipenseridae. In: Genetics, Selection, and Hybridization of Fish. (Ed. B.I. Cherfas). Translated from Russian by Israel Program for Scientific Translations. Keter Press Binding: Wiener Bindery Ltd. Jerusalem. pp. 98-106 |
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| 2n=60 Burtzev IA. Serebryakova EV. 1973. A hybrid beluga x sterlet (Huso huso (L.) x Acipenser ruthenus L., Pisces): karyology, gametogenesis and potential status. Genetics 74: s35 |
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2n=117.4±1.08; 57.7±0.37 m+sm, 58.9±0.97 a, 174.3±1.41 FN |
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| 2n=119 Ojima Y. Nakanishi Y. Takay A. 1986. Chromosomal studies of cultured cells from the hybrids between Huso huso and Acipenser ruthenus. Proc. Japan Acad. 62B(3): 87-90 Abstract |
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| 2n=116-118 Arefjev VA. Nikolaev AI. 1993. Induced polyploidy in sturgeons: back to the problem in Russia. 31-32 pp. International Symposium on Sturgeons, Abstract Bulletin. September 6-11, 1993, Moscow-Kostroma-Moscow, Russia. Abstract |
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Omoto N, Maebayashi M, Adachi S, Arai K, Yamauchi K. 2005. Sex ratios of triploids and gynogenetic diploids induced in the hybrid sturgeon, the bester (Huso huso female x Acipenser ruthenus male) Aquaculture 245: 39-47 Abstract |
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| 2n=167.2±1.6; 74±0.4 m+sm, 93.6±1.4 a, 241.3±1.9 FN Arefjev VA. Nikolaev AI. 1991. Cytological analysis of the reciprocal hybrids between low- and high-chromosome acipenserids, the great sturgeon, Huso huso (L.), and the Russian sturgeon, Acipenser gueldenstaedti Brandt. Cytologia 56: 495-502 Abstract |
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| 2n=169.4±2.9; 74.2±0.7 m+sm, 95.3±2.4 a, 243.6±3.5 FN Arefjev VA. Nikolaev AI. 1991. Cytological analysis of the reciprocal hybrids between low- and high-chromosome acipenserids, the great sturgeon, Huso huso (L.), and the Russian sturgeon, Acipenser gueldenstaedti Brandt. Cytologia 56: 495-502 Abstract |
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2n=177.1±2.2; 78 m+sm, 16 a, 88 mc 260 FN |
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Fopp-Bayat D, Woznicki P. 2006. Verification of ploidy level in sturgeon larvae. Aquac. Res. 37: 1671-1675 Abstract |
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Fopp-Bayat D, Jankun M, Woznicki P. 2007. Viability of diploid and triploid larvae of Siberian sturgeon and bester hybrids. Aquac. Res. 38: 1301–1304 Abstract |
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Fopp-Bayat D. Jankun M. Woznicki P. Kolman R. 2007. Viability of diploid and triploid larvae of Siberian sturgeon and bester hybrids. Aquaculture Research 38: 1301-1304 Abstract |
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Pseudoscaphirhynchus kaufmanni
| Kovalev KV. Balashov DA. Cherniak AL. Lebedeva EB. Vasil'Eva ED. Vasil'Ev VP. 2014. The karyotype of the amu darya sturgeon, Pseudoscaphirhynchus kaufmanni (Actinopterygii: Acipenseriformes: Acipenseridae). Acta Ichthyologica et Piscatoria, 44: 111-116 Abstract |
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