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The karyotypes shown were prepared from skin cultures of animals from the National Zoological Park, Washington, D.C., USA. They have been arranged in a manner similar to the domestic cat (Vol. 1, Fol. 31). The satellited marker chromosome is the 15th autosome shown here. Three previous karyotypes have been shown of this species which are in essential agreement with those displayed here. However, it appears that there is great variability in the size of the short arms of the submetacentric and subtelocentric elements. Consequently, other authors have suggested the presence of more than one pair of acrocentrics in this species. The Y chromosome is usually so small that its short arm is difficult to recognize.
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Hsu, T.C., Benirschke, K. (1968). Potos flavus (Kinkajou). In: An Atlas of Mammalian Chromosomes. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-6424-9_27
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