A Preliminary Study of Chromosomes of Two Species of Oysters (Ostrea lurida and Crassostrea gigas)
- 1 October 1967
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Canadian Science Publishing in Journal of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada
- Vol. 24 (10) , 2155-2159
- https://doi.org/10.1139/f67-175
Abstract
A diploid chromosome number of 20 (n = 10) was found for each of the native oyster Ostrea lurida, and the Pacific oyster Crassostrea gigas. The diploid complements of the native oyster were normal but in the Pacific oyster atypical numbers, polyploid nuclei, and abnormal cleavage was observed in some somatic metaphase plates. The diplotene meiotic bivalents of the native oyster resembled lampbrush chromosomes.This publication has 3 references indexed in Scilit:
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- SEXUAL PHASES IN THE AMERICAN OYSTER (OSTREA VIRGINICA)The Biological Bulletin, 1932
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