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Skin biopsy from a male found dead in San Diego County, and a female, kindly supplied by Dr. Doris Wurster-Hill, Hanover, New Hampshire, USA, were used for karyotype preparations. The last autosome, an acrocentric, has a secondary constriction and is the “carnivore-marker.”
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Wurster-Hill, D. H.: Chromosomes of eight species from five families of Carnivora. J. Mammal. 54: 763, 1973.
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Hsu, T.C., Benirschke, K. (1974). Taxidea taxus (American badger). In: An Atlas of Mammalian Chromosomes. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-6432-4_33
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