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SPECIES RECORD

Detailed Record for Agrius cingulata

Common Name: Sweet potato hornworm

Taxonomy: Phylum Arthropoda / Sub Phylum Hexapoda / Class Insecta / Sub Class Pterygota / Infra Class Neoptera / Super Order Holometabola / Order Lepidoptera / Family Sphingidae / Genus Agrius

C-value (pg): 0.48

Method: Flow Cytometry

Cell Type: Brain

Standard Species: Drosophila melanogaster = 0.18pg

References:
Hanrahan, S.J. and J.S. Johnston (2011). New genome size estimates of 134 species of arthropods. Chromosome Research 19: 809–823.

Outlinks:
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