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From: How to become a successful invasive tapeworm: a case study of abandoned sexuality and exceptional chromosome diversification in the triploid carp parasite Atractolytocestus huronensis Anthony, 1958 (Caryophyllidea: Lytocestidae)

Fig. 1

Karyotype derived from mitotic cells of Atractolytocestus huronensis. a Giemsa staining. b C-banded chromosomes showing AT-rich bands (labelled in light blue), counterstained with DAPI (blue). c FISH with telomeric probe (TTAGGG)n (red) counterstained with DAPI (blue); Interstitial telomeric signals are located on of the chromosomes of triplets nos 2, 4, 6, 7 and 8. d FISH with 18S rDNA probe (red) counterstained with DAPI (blue); two loci for 18S rDNA (NORs) are located on each chromosome of the triplet no. 2. Scale-bar: 10 µm

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