Genome Size; Zebrafish

posted on bionet.organisms.zebrafish 5/97
> Tue, 29 Apr 1997 09:49:43
> David Richard Harper wrote
> As with Rassi Borneo (24 April), I would like to know the size of the
> whole zebrafish genome. Can anyone help, please?
>
> Thanx.

Hi David,
Zfish genome was estimated to be 1.7 X 10**9 bp by Hinegardner and Rosen (1972) in Am. Nat. 166: 621, or 2900 cM by Johnson et al., Genetics 142: 1277.

Raymond Lee
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