Detailed Record for Hylobates lar

Common Name: White-handed gibbon

Taxonomy: Phylum Chordata / Sub Phylum Vertebrata / Class Mammalia / Sub Class Theria / Infra Class Eutheria / Order Primates / Family Hylobatidae / Genus Hylobates

C-value (pg): 3.24

Chromosome Number (2n): 44

Method: Feulgen Densitometry

Cell Type: Leukocytes

Standard Species: Homo sapiens = 3.50pg

References:
Formenti, D., S. Garagna, G.F. De Stefano, and C. Pellicciari (1983). Variazioni del contenuto nucleare in DNA negli Hominoidea. Antropologia Contemporanea 6: 219-224.

Pellicciari, C., D. Formenti, M. Zuccotti, R. Stanyon, and M.G. Manfredi Romanini (1988). Genome size and constitutive heterochromatin in Hylobates muelleri and Symphalangus syndactylus and in their viable hybrid. Cytogenetics and Cell Genetics 47: 1-4.

Other records available for this species:

Hylobates lar = 2.93 (pg)

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