Detailed Record for Ceuthophilus stygius

Common Name: Camel cricket

Taxonomy: Phylum Arthropoda / Sub Phylum Hexapoda / Class Insecta / Sub Class Pterygota / Order Orthoptera / Family Gryllacrididae / Genus Ceuthophilus

C-value (pg): 9.55

Method: Feulgen Densitometry

Cell Type: Haemocytes

Standard Species: Gallus domesticus = 1.25pg, Oncorhynchus mykiss = 2.60pg

References:
Rasch, E.M. and R.W. Rasch (1981). Cytophotometric determination of genome size for two species of cave crickets (Orthoptera, Rhaphidophoridae). Journal of Histochemistry and Cytochemistry 29: 885.

Rasch, E.M. (1985). DNA "standards" and the range of accurate DNA estimates by Feulgen absorption microspectrophotometry In: Advances in Microscopy, edited by R.R. Cowden and S.H. Harrison. Alan R. Liss, New York. 137-166.

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