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A list of 256 references dealing with avian karyology is presented. This list is updated to April 1983 and covers 587 bird species, 385 non-passerines and 202 passerines. It includes 37 non-passerines and 29 passerines that were only studied in the period from 1902 onwards to the early 1950s using less sophisticated techniques (mostly on sectioned material of gonadal tissues). The remaining 348 non-passerines and 173 passerines were studied with more advanced techniques using colchicine-treated material of feather-pulp, embryonic tissue, bone-marrow, leucocyte or tissue culture. The species studied to date belong to 25 of the 26 avian orders and to 96 of the 160 avian families.
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This is the eighth in a series of articles, by different authors, to appear in this journal under the editorship of Professor Chiarelli, supplementing the data published in ‘Cytotaxonomy and Vertebrate Evolution’ (A. B. Chiarelli & E. Capanna, eds. Academic Press, London & New York, 1973)-Eds.
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De Boer, L.E.M. New developments in vertebrate cytotaxonomy VIII. A current list of references on avian karyology. Genetica 65, 3–6 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00056763
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