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Table 1 Cichlidae species submitted to cytogenetic mapping using BAC clones of O. niloticus as probes in FISH experiments

From: Integrating cytogenetics and genomics in comparative evolutionary studies of cichlid fish

Subfamily

Groups or tribes

Species

2n

Sex

Karyotype

Origin

Etroplinae

 

Etroplus maculatus

46

1M/1F/1ns

18m/sm+18t/a+10 micro

Petshop, Botucatu, Brazil

Pseudocrenilabrinae

Tilapiine

Oreochromis niloticus

44

2M/3F/1ns

2m/sm+42t/a

TAF-UMD

  

Oreochromis mossambicus

44

1M/1F

4m/sm+40t/a

TAF-UMD

  

Oreochromis aureus

44

1F

2m/sm+42t/a

TAF-UMD

  

Tilapia mariae

40

1M/1F

8m/sm+32t/a

TAF-UMD

 

Haplochromine

Astatotilapia latifasciata

44

2M/3F/1ns

12m/sm+32t/a

Petshop, Botucatu, Brazil

  

Astatotilapia burtoni

40

1M/2F

14m/sm+26t/a

TAF-UMD

  

Metriaclima lombardoi

44

1M/3F/1ns

14m/sm+30t/a

TAF-UMD

  

Labeotropheus trewavasae

44

2M/3F

14m/sm+30t/a

TAF-UMD

 

Hemichromine

Hemichromis bimaculatus

44

2 ns

4m/sm+40t/a

Petshop, Botucatu, Brazil

Cichlinae

Cichlini

Cichla kelberi

48

2M

48 t/a

Araguaia River, Brazil

 

Astronotini

Astronotus ocellatus

48

2M

12m/sm+36t/a

Tietê River, Brazil

 

Heroini

Symphysodon aequifasciatus

60

3ns

46m/sm+4t/a+10micro

Petshop, Botucatu, Brazil

 

Geophagini

Geophagus brasiliensis

48

1M/1F

2m/sm+46t/a

São Paulo State rivers, Brazil

  1. 2n, diploid chromosome number; m/sm, metacentric/submetacentric; t/a, telocentric/acrocentric; micro, microchromosomes; M/F, males/females; ns, not identified sex.