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Birstein VJ. Hanner R. DeSalle R. 1997. Phylogeny of the Acipenseriformes: cytogenetic and molecular approaches. Env. Biol. Fish. 48: 127-155 Abstract

Birstein VJ. Vasilev VP. 1987. Nucleolar organizer regions, their function and polyploidy in fishes. Zhurnal Obshchei Biologii 48 (6): 729-747 Abstract

Fontana F. 2002. A cytogenetic approach to the study of taxonomy and evolution in sturgeons. J. Appl. Ichthyol. 18: 226-233. (Table I, Table II) Abstract

Fontana F. Lanfredi M. Congiu L. Leis M. Chicca M. Rossi R. 2003. Chromosomal mapping of 18S-28S and 5S rRNA genes by two-colour fluorescent in situ hybridization in six sturgeon species. Genome 46: 473-477 Abstract

Fontana F. Rossi R. Lanfredi M. Arlati G. Bronzi P. 1999. Chromosome banding in sturgeons. J. Appl. Ichthyol. 15: 9-11 Abstract

Vasil’ev VP. 1999. Polyploidization by reticular speciation in Acipenseriform evolution: a working hypothesis. J. Appl. Ichthyol. 15: 29–31. Abstract

Fontana F. Tagliavini J. Congiu L. 2001. Sturgeon genetics and cytogenetics: recent advancements and perspectives. Genetica 111: 359-373 Abstract

Fontana F. Zane L. Pepe A. 2007. Congiu L. Polyploidy in Acipenseriformes: cytogenetic and molecular approaches. In Fish Cytogenetics. Eds: E. Pisano, C. Ozouf-Costaz, F. Foresti & B.G. Kapoor. Science Publisher, Inc. New Hampshire, USA. pp. 385-403

Havelka M., Kašpar V., Hulák M., Flajšhans M. 2011. Sturgeon genetics and cytogenetics: a review related to ploidy levels and interspecific hybridization. Folia Zool. 60: 93-103 Abstract

Lanfredi M. Congiu L. Garrido-Ramos MA. De La Herrán R. Leis M. Chicca M. Rossi R. Tagliavini J. Ruiz Rejón C. Ruiz Rejón M. Fontana F. 2001. Chromosomal location and evolution of a satellite DNA family in seven sturgeon species. Chrom. Res. 9: 47-52 Abstract

Robinson M R. Ferguson M M. 2004. Genetics of North American Acipenseriformes. In: Sturgeons and Paddlefish of North America. Edited by. LeBreton Greg TO, Beamish F William H, McKinley R. Scott. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, Boston. Chapter 10, pp. 217-230 Abstract

Vasiliev VP. 1985. Evolutionary karyology of fishes. Nauka Press, Moscow. 126-139. (in Russian).

Vasil’ev VP. 2009. Mechanisms of polyploid evolution in fish: Polyploidy in Sturgeons. In: Biology, Conservation and Sustainable Development of Sturgeons. Eds: R. Carmona, A. Domezain, M. García-Gallego, J. A. Hernando, F. Rodríguez, M. Ruiz-Rejón. Springer Science + Business Media BV: pp. 97-117 Abstract

Mirsky AE. Ris H. 1951. The desoxyribonucleic acid content of animal cells and its evolutionary significance. J. Gen. Physiol. 34: 451-462.
(A. sturio Cv 3.2)

Vialli M. 1957. Volume et contenu en ADN par noyau. Exp.Cell Res. Suppl. 4: 284-293.
(A. naccarii Cv 4.24; A. sturio Cv 3.95)

Kafiani KA. RI Tatarskaia. Kanopkaite SM. 1958. Phosphorus metabolism in the embryonic development of sturgeon. Biochemistry 23: 389-399.
(A. stellatus Cv 4.70)

Ohno S. Muramoto J. Stenius C. Christian L. Kitterell WA. 1969. Microchromosomes in holocephalian, chondrostean and holostean fishes. Chromosoma 26: 35-40 Abstract
(S. platorynchus Cv 3.60)

Fontana F. 1976. Nuclear DNA content and cytometric of erythrocytes of Huso huso L., Acipenser sturio L. and Acipenser naccarii Bonaparte. Caryologia 29: 127-138 Abstract
(H. huso Cv 3.60; A. naccarii Cv 6.30; A. sturio Cv 3.58)

Hinegardner R. 1976. The cellular DNA content of sharks, rays and some other fishes. Comp. Biochem. Physiol., B. 55: 367-370.
(A. transmontanus Cv 10.60)

Tiersch TR. Chandler RW. Wachtel SS. Elias S. 1989. Reference standards for flow cytometry and application in comparative studies of nuclear DNA content. Cytometry 10: 706-710 Abstract.
(P. spathula Cv 3.90)

Blacklidge KH. Bidwell CA. 1993. Three ploidy levels indicated by genome quantification in Acipenseriformes of North America. J. Hered. 84: 427-430 Abstract
(A. brevirostrum C.v. 13.07; A. fulvescens C.v. 8.90; A. medirostris Cv 8.82; A. oxyrhynchus Cv 4.55; A. transmontanus Cv 9.46; S. platorynchus Cv 4.73; P. spathula Cv 4.89)

Birstein VJ. Poletaev AI. Goncharov BF. 1993. The DNA content in Eurasian sturgeon species determined by flow cytometry. Cytometry, 14(4): 337-383 Abstract
(H. dauricus Cv 3.77; H.huso Cv 3.43; A. baeri Cv 8.30; A. gueldenstaedtii Cv 7.87; A. medirostris Cv 14.33; A. nudiventris Cv 3.96; A. ruthenus Cv 3.74; A. stellatus Cv 3.74; P.kaufmanni Cv 3.47; P. spathula Cv 3.17)

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
(A. schrenckii Cv 11.73)

Zhang SM. Yang Y. Deng H. Wei QW. Wu QJ. 1999. Genome size and ploidy characters of several species of sturgeons and paddlefishes with comments on cellular evolution of Acipenseriformes. Acta Zoologica Sinica, 45(2): 200-206 Abstract
(P. gladius Cv 4.11; A. dabryanus Cv 8.26; A. sinensis Cv 9.07; A. schrenckii Cv 6.07; P. spathula Cv 3.96)

Hardie DC. Hebert PDN. 2003. The nucleotypic effects of cellular DNA content in cartilaginous and ray-finned fishes. Genome 46: 683-706 Abstract
(A. brevirostrum Cv 13.78; A. oxyrhynchus Cv 4.38)

Hardie DC. Hebert PDN. 2004. Genome-size evolution in fishes. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 61: 1636-1646. Abstract
(A. brevirostrum Cv 13.78; A. oxyrhynchus Cv 4.38)

Yin HB. Sun ZW. Sun DJ. 2004. Comparative study on DNA contents of five cultured fishes of Acipenseridae and Huso. Journal of Shanghai Fisheries University 13, 111–114. Abstract
(A. gueldenstaedtii Cv 12.24; A.baeri Cv 11.60; A. schrenckii Cv 11-59; A.ruthenus Cv 6.06; H. dauricus Cv 4.77)

2n ~ 209 Burtzev JA. Nikoljukin NJ. Serebryakova EV. Karyotype presented in 1973 at the First European Ichthyological Congress, held in Sarajevo by the the Yugoslav Society of Ichthyology (personal communication to Francesco Fontana)
2n=249±5; 120 mc 308±4 FN Vasil’ yev 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
Vasiliev VP. 1985. Evolutionary karyology of fishes. Nauka Press, Moscow. 126-139. (in Russian).
2n=246±8; 98 m+sm, 150 a+mc, 346 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
2n=246±10 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
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=229-240 Dorota FB, Jankun M, Woznicki P. 2006 Chromosome number and erythrocyte nuclei length in triploid Siberian sturgeon Acipenser baeri Brandt. Caryologia 59: 319-321 Abstract
Havelka M. Hulák M. Ráb P. Rábová M. Lieckfeldt D. Ludwig A. Rodina M. Gela D. Pšenička M. Bytyutskyy D. Flajšhans M. 2014. Fertility of a spontaneous hexaploid male Siberian sturgeon, Acipenser baerii. BMC Genetics, 15 Abstract

m = metacentric; sm = submetacentric; a = acrocentric; mc = micro chromosomes; FN = fondamental number

372 (254-372); 178 m+sm, 194 a+mc, 550 FN Kim DS. Nam YK. Noh JK. Park CH. Chapman FA. 2005. Karyotype of North American shortnose sturgeon Acipenser brevirostrum with the highest chromosome number in the Acipenseriformes. Ichthyol. Res. 52: 94–97 Abstract
Flynn SR, Matsuoka M, Reith M, Martin-Robichaud DJ, Benfey TJ 2006. Gynogenesis and sex determination in shortnose sturgeon, Acipenser brevirostrum Lesuere. Aquaculture 253: 721-727 Abstract
372±6; 178 m+sm, 196 a+mc, 468 FN Fontana F, Congiu L, Mudrak VA, Quattro JM, Smith TIJ, Ware K, Doroshov SI. 2008- Evidence of hexaploid karyotype in shortnose sturgeon- Genome 51(2): 113-119. DOI 10.1139/G07-112 Abstract (Table 1, Table 2)

m = metacentric; sm = submetacentric; a = acrocentric; mc = micro chromosomes; FN = fondamental number

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
2n=121±3; 78 m+sm, 44a+mc, 200 FN Fontana F, Lanfredi M, Kirschbaum F, Garrido-Ramos MA, Robles F, Forlani A, Congiu L. 2008. Comparison of karyotypes of Acipenser oxyrinchus and A. sturio by chromosome banding and fluorescent in situ hybridisation. Genetica 132: 281-286. DOI 10.1007/s10709-007-9171-4 Abstract

m = metacentric; sm = submetacentric; a = acrocentric; mc = micro chromosomes; FN = fondamental number

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.
258±4; 134 m+sm, 128 a+mc, 386 NF Nowruzfashkhami M. R., Pourkazemi M and Baradarannoveiri S. 2000. Chromosome study of persian sturgeon Acipenser persicus B. Cytologia 65: 197-202 Abstract
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

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
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
2n=266±4; 92 m+sm, 358±4 FN Vasil’ev VP. Vasil’eva ED. Shedko SV. Novomodny GV. 2010. How many times has polyploidization occurred during acipenserid evolution? New data on the karyotypes of sturgeons (Acipenseridae, Actinopterygii) from the Russian far east. Journal of Ichthyology, 50: 950-959. Abstract

m = metacentric; sm = submetacentric; st = subtelocentric; a = acrocentric; mc = micro chromosomes; FN = fondamental number

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
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).
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
2n=118±1, 356 FN Nowruz Fashkhami 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.
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
2n=114 Nowruz Fashkhami MR. Khosroshahi M. 1999. Karyotype study on stellate and great sturgeon by leukocyte culture. J. Appl. Ichthyol. 15: 283. Abstract
2n=146±6; 72 m+sm, 74 a+mc, 218 FN Chicca M. Suciu R. Ene C. Lanfredi M. Congiu L. Leis M. Tagliavini J. Rossi R. Fontana F. 2002. Karyotype characterization of the stellate sturgeon, Acipenser stellatus, by chromosome banding and fluorescent in situ hybridization. J. Appl. Ichthyol. 18: 298-300 Abstract

m = metacentric; sm = submetacentric chromosomes; FN = fondamental number

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
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
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
2n=246±10 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
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
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
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

Nikoljukin N.I. 1966. Some questions of cytogenetics, hybridization and systematics of the Acipenseridae. Genetika (USSR), 5: 25-27 Abstract
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
Arefjev VA. 1999. Cytogenetics of interploid hybridization of sturgeons. J. Appl. Ichthyol. 15: 277 Abstract
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
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
Birstein VJ. 2002. Sturgeon Species and Hybrids: Can Hybrids Produce Caviar? Environ. Policy Law. 32: 210- 214
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
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
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
2n=117.4±1.08; 57.7±0.37 m+sm, 58.9±0.97 a, 174.3±1.41 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
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
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
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
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
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
2n=177.1±2.2; 78 m+sm, 16 a, 88 mc 260 FN Gorshkova G. Gorshkov S. Gordin H. Knibb W. 1996 Karyological study in hybrids of beluga Huso huso (L.) and the russian sturgeon Acipenser guldenstaedti Brandt. Isr. J. Aquacult-Bamin. 48: 35-39 Abstract
Fopp-Bayat D, Woznicki P. 2006. Verification of ploidy level in sturgeon larvae. Aquac. Res. 37: 1671-1675 Abstract
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
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

m = metacentric; sm = submetacentric; a = acrocentric; mc = micro chromosomes; FN = fondamental number