Detailed Record for Dendroctonus ponderosa

Common Name: Mountain pine beetle

Taxonomy: Phylum Arthropoda / Sub Phylum Hexapoda / Class Insecta / Sub Class Pterygota / Order Coleoptera / Family Curculionidae / Genus Dendroctonus

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.

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