General information |
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| Turcichondrostoma fahirae (Ladiges, 1960) | ||
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| IUCN Red List status (2014) | Not Reported |
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| Habitat | - |
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| Systematics |
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| Geographical distribution | - |
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| Occurrence | - | |
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| Remarks | NORs (visualized by AgNO3 staining, CMA3 and FISH) exhibited marked size heteromorphism and were adjacent to a more centromere-proximal 5S rDNA site on the long arm. Additional 5S rDNA clusters occupied short arms of four acrocentric chromosomes. |
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Karyological information |
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| Geographical area of study | Türkiye | |
| Source of chromosomes | - |
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| Number of specimens with sex | - |
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| Diploid chromosome number | 50 |
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| Karyotype formula | 12m+22sm+10st+6a |
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| Fundamental arm number | - |
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| Chromosome length | - |
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| Sex chromosome | - |
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| Chromosome staining/banding/FISH | Low amount of constitutive heterochromatin distributed exclusively across the pericentromeric regions of all chromosomes, with most prominent C-bands placed on a single chromosome pair carrying AgNOR. |
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| Reference(s) |
Tavsan GG, Arslan A, Eksi B, Alpaslan Z, Arslan E, Sember A. (2025). Karyotype and repetitive DNA analysis in Turcichondrostoma fahirae (Cypriniformes, Leuciscidae): A step towards the use of molecular cytogenetics in taxonomy of freshwater fishes in Türkiye. Cytogenet Genome Res.: 1-21. doi: 10.1159/000544909. |
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