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Chromosome preparations from lymphocyte cultures of 30 Atlantic salmon were studied. Robertsonian polymorphisms were observed with different individuals having diploid numbers of 56, 57 and 58 but a constant arm number of 74. C-banding shows constitutive heterochromatin at the centromeres, associated with the satellites on a small pair of metacentric chromosomes and in the interstitial regions of the long arms of a number of chromosomes.
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Hartley, S.E., Horne, M.T. Chromosome polymorphism and constitutive heterochromatin in the Atlantic salmon, Salmo salar . Chromosoma 89, 377–380 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00331255
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