General information |
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Turcichondrostoma fahirae (Ladiges, 1960) | ||
Synonyms |
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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 | - | |
Importance | ||
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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