Detailed Record for Eisenia fetida

Common Name: Manure earthworm

Taxonomy: Phylum Annelida / Class Oligochaeta / Order Haplotaxida / Family Lumbricidae / Genus Eisenia

C-value (pg): 0.70

Chromosome Number (2n): 22

Method: Flow Cytometry

Cell Type: Testes

Standard Species: Gallus domesticus = 1.25pg

References:
Vitturi, R., M.S. Colomba, A. Pirrone, and A. Libertini (2000). Physical mapping of rDNA genes, (TTAGGG)n telomeric sequence and other karyological features in two earthworms of the family Lumbricidae Annelida: Oligochaeta). Heredity 85: 203-207.

Other records available for this species:

Eisenia fetida = 0.70 (pg)

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