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Balaenoptera musculus (Blue whale)

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The fibroblast culture from cornea of one male blue whale was made available by Dr. D. Duffield. It is frozen in liquid nitrogen at San Diego Zoo. The bottom karyotype is prepared by the C-banding technique.

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  1. Duffield, D.A.: Ph.D. dissertation, University of California Los Angeles 1976, “Phylokaryotypic evaluation of the cetacea”.

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Hsu, T.C., Benirschke, K. (1977). Balaenoptera musculus (Blue whale). In: An Atlas of Mammalian Chromosomes. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-6436-2_36

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