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Karyotype of Dwarf Loach, Kichulchoia brevifasciata (Pisces: Cobitidae) from Korea  

Kim, Ik-Soo (Faculty of Biological Sciences, College of Natural Sciences, Chonbuk National University)
Kim, Eun-Jin (Faculty of Biological Sciences, College of Natural Sciences, Chonbuk National University)
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Korean Journal of Ichthyology / v.20, no.1, 2008 , pp. 61-65 More about this Journal
Abstract
The karyotype analysis of Kichulchoia brevifasciata was carried out, known as an end-angered small endemic cobitid fish of Korea. Five females and one male were collected from Geum-san-myeon, Goheung-gun, Jeollanam-do, Korea and its gill, kidney and digestive tract tissues were treated by flame-drying technique. The karyotype was found to be 2n= 48 from 33 cells; 16 meta-submetacentric and 32 subtelo-telocentric chromosomes; 64 FN (fundamental number). This karyotype showed a remarkably different karyotype formula from Niwaella multifasciata which is closely related to this species.
Keywords
Chromosome; Kichulchoia brevifasciata; karyotype; fundamental number; Korea;
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