DBA MAMMALIAN GENOME SIZE DATABASE REFERENCES

Manfredi Romanini M.G., Formenti D., Pellicciari C., Redi C.A.

This database contains data about Genome size (DNA pg), chromosome number and fundamental number of several species of mammals.
Great part of these genome size data (mainly that for Chiroptera, Rodentia and Primates) comes from the researches done since many years in the laboratory of Histology, Embriology and Anthropology of our Dept. of Animal Biology.

• Arnason U., 1974 - Comparative chromosome studies in Cetacea. Hereditas 77: 1-36
• Bachmann K., 1972 - Genome size in mammals. Chromosoma, 37: 85-93
• Benirschke K. (Ed.), Comparative Mammalian Cytogenetics. Springer, Berlin-Heidelbergh-New York. 1969
• Capanna E., Manfredi Romanini M.G., 1971 - Nuclear DNA content and morphology of  the karyotype in certain paleoarctic microchiroptera. Caryologia 24: 471-482.
• FORMENTI D., GARAGNA S., DE STEFANO G.F., PELLICCIARI C.: Variazioni del contenuto nucleare in DNA negli Hominoidea. Antropologia Contemporanea, 6, 219-223 (1983)
• Gamperl R., Ehmann C. and Bachmann K., 1982 - Genome size and heterochromatin variation in rodents. Genetica 58: 199-212.
• GARAGNA S., FORMENTI D.: DNA content variability in several species of Australian and South-American marsupials. XLVIII Congr. U.Z.I., Firenze, 3-7 marzo 1981. - Boll. Zool. 48 suppl., 58, 1981. - Boll. Zool. 48: 255-261 (1981)
• Manfredi Romanini M.G., 1985 - The nuclear content of desoxyribonucleic acid and some problems of mammalian phylogenesis. Mammalia 49: 369-385.
• Manfredi Romanini M.G, 1973 - The nuclear DNA content and the evolution of Vertebrates. In: B. Chiarelli and E. Capanna (eds.) Cytotaxonomy and Vertebrate Evolution. Academic Press, London-New York, pp. 39-81.
• MANFREDI ROMANINI M.G., FORMENTI D., PELLICCIARI C. (1987): The nuclear DNA content as a parameter for the cytotaxonomical characterization of apes. In: "Biological Evolution" (Ed. V. Pesce Delfino), Adriatica Editrice, Bari, pp. 49-56
• Manfredi Romanini M.G., Pellicciari C., Bolchi F., Capanna E., 1975 - Donnees nouvelles sur le contenu en ADN des noyaux postkinetiques chez les Chiropteres, Mammalia 39: 657-683.
• Pellicciari C., Formenti D., Redi C.A., Manfredi Romanini M.G., 1982 - DNA content variability in Primates. J.Hum.Evol. 11: 131-141.
• Pellicciari C., Formenti D., Zuccotti D., Stanyon R., Manfredi Romanini M.G., 1988 - Genome Size and constitutive heterochromatin in Hylobates muelleri and Symphalangus syndactylus and in their viable hybrid. Cytogenet. Cell Genet. 47: 1-4.
• PELLICCIARI C., RONCHETTI E., FORMENTI D., STANYON R., MANFREDI ROMANINI M.G.: Genome size and 'C-heterochromatic-DNA' in man and the african apes. Hum.Evol. 5,  261-267, 1990.