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Skin biopsies were grown from two animals of the Souther race maomtained at San Diego Zoo, California. Pairing of chromsomes is arbitrary. Previously this species is reported to have a karyotype of 2n=82 with one less submetacentric pair (1).
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Hsu, T.C., Benirschke, K. (1973). Ceratotherium simum (White rhinoceros). In: An Atlas of Mammalian Chromosomes. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-9826-7_39
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