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Odobenus rosmarus (Walrus)

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An Atlas of Mammalian Chromosomes

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These karyotypes are gifts of Dr. U. Arnason and come from fibroblast cultures. Prominent secondary constrictions mark the tenth autosomal pair, X and Y are readily identified.

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  1. Department of Biology, University of Texas System Cancer Center, M. D. Anderson Hospital and Tumor Institute, Houston, Texas, USA

    T. C. Hsu

  2. Department of Pathology, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, USA

    Kurt Benirschke

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Hsu, T.C., Benirschke, K. (1977). Odobenus rosmarus (Walrus). In: An Atlas of Mammalian Chromosomes. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-6436-2_45

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