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SPECIES RECORD

Detailed Record for Cancer borealis

Common Name: Jonah crab

Taxonomy: Phylum Arthropoda / Sub Phylum Crustacea / Class Malacostraca / Order Decapoda / Sub Order Pleocyemata / Infra Order Brachyura / Family Cancridae / Genus Cancer

C-value (pg): 2.27

Method: Biochemical Analysis

Cell Type: Testes

Standard Species: Bufo terrestris = 5.00pg

References:
Vaughn, J.C. (1975). DNA reassociation kinetics and chromosome structure in the crabs Cancer borealis and Libinia emarginata. Chromosoma 50: 243-257.

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