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Journal of Heredity Advance Access published online on April 5, 2006
Journal of Heredity, doi:10.1093/jhered/esj033
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© The American Genetic Association. 2006. All rights reserved. For permissions, please email: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org.
Received September 5, 2005
Accepted February 27, 2006

Brief Communication

G-Banded Karyotype and Ideogram for the North Atlantic Right Whale (Eubalaena glacialis)

Kimberly C. Pause 1, Robert K. Bonde 2, Peter M. McGuire 1, Robert T. Zori 3, and Brian A. Gray 3 *

1 From the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Box 100245 University of Florida Health Science Center, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32610
2 From the Sirenia Project, Florida Integrated Science Center, U.S. Geological Survey, 2201 N.W. 40th Terrace, Gainesville, FL 32605
3 From the University of Florida Cytogenetics Laboratory, Division of Genetics, Department of Pediatrics, Box 100296 UFHSC, Gainesville, FL 32610

* To whom correspondence should be addressed.
Brian A. Gray, E-mail: grayba{at}peds.ufl.edu


  Abstract

Published cytogenetic data for extant cetacean species remain incomplete. In a review of the literature, we found karyotypic information for 6 of the 13 tentatively recognized species of the suborder Mysticeti (baleen whales). Among those yet to be described is the critically endangered North Atlantic right whale (Eubalaena glacialis). Herein, we describe and propose a first-generation G-banded karyotype and ideogram for this species (2n = 42), obtained from peripheral blood chromosome preparations from a stranded male calf. This information may prove useful for future genetic mapping projects and for interspecific and intraspecific genomic comparisons by techniques such as zoo-FISH.


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