Detailed Record for Lepeophtheirus salmonis

Common Name: Salmon louse

Taxonomy: Phylum Arthropoda / Sub Phylum Crustacea / Class Copepoda / Order Siphonostomatoida / Family Caligidae / Genus Lepeophtheirus

C-value (pg): 1.40

Method: Feulgen Image Analysis Densitometry

Cell Type: Whole body

Standard Species: Gallus domesticus = 1.25pg, Oncorhynchus mykiss = 2.60pg

References:
Wyngaard, G. A., R. Skern-Mauritzen, K. Malde, R. Prendergast, and S. Peruzzi (2022). The salmon louse genome may be much larger than sequencing suggests. Scientific Reports 12: 6616.

Other records available for this species:

Lepeophtheirus salmonis = 0.58 (pg)
Lepeophtheirus salmonis = 1.59 (pg)

Outlinks:
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