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Skin biopsies of two specimens, one male and one female, were made available by Dr. H. Heck, Catskill Game Farm, New York, USA. The karyotypes are essentially similar to those of Wallace and Fairall. These authors studied 34 animals (20♂, 14♀) of which 17 had 2n=60, 14 had 2n=59 (with one metacentric), and 3 had 2n=58 (with two metacentrics). These authors concluded that a Robertsonian system exists in this species and they found trivalent figures in meiosis of animals with 2n=59.
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Hsu, T.C., Benirschke, K. (1970). Aepyceros melampus melampus (Impala). In: An Atlas of Mammalian Chromosomes. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-6428-7_38
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