Detailed Record for Tribolium castaneum
Common Name: Flour beetle
Taxonomy: Phylum Arthropoda / Sub Phylum Hexapoda / Class Insecta / Sub Class Pterygota / Order Coleoptera / Family Tenebrionidae / Genus Tribolium
C-value (pg): 0.21
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:
Tribolium castaneum = 0.20 (pg)Tribolium castaneum = 0.21 (pg)
Tribolium castaneum = 0.21 (pg)
Outlinks:
NCBI Taxonomy Browser
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