Animal Genome Size Database:: Species Record

Detailed Record for Tentyria grossa

Common Name: Darkling beetle

Taxonomy: Phylum Arthropoda / Sub Phylum Hexapoda / Class Insecta / Sub Class Pterygota / Order Coleoptera / Family Tenebrionidae / Genus Tentyria

C-value (pg): 0.30

Chromosome Number (2n): 20

Method: Feulgen Densitometry

Cell Type: Sperm

Standard Species: Tribolium castaneum = 0.21pg

References:
Juan, C. and E. Petitpierre (1989). C-banding and DNA content in seven species of Tenebrionidae (Coleoptera). Genome 32: 834-839.