Detailed Record for Musca domestica

Common Name: Housefly

Taxonomy: Phylum Arthropoda / Sub Phylum Hexapoda / Class Insecta / Sub Class Pterygota / Order Diptera / Family Muscidae / Genus Musca

C-value (pg): 0.92

Method: Flow Cytometry

Cell Type: Brain

Standard Species: Drosophila melanogaster = 0.18pg

References:
Gregory, T.R., P. Nathwani, T.R. Bonnett, and D.P.W. Huber (2013). Sizing up arthropod genomes: an evaluation of the impact of environmental variation on genome size estimates by flow cytometry and the use of qPCR as a method of estimation. Genome 56: 505–510.

Other records available for this species:

Musca domestica = 0.89 (pg)
Musca domestica = 1.02 (pg)
Musca domestica = 1.04 (pg)

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