Table 1.
Correspondence of Cavia tschudii and Cavia porcellus chromosomes according to their G band patterns 1.
| Chromosomes with total G band correspondence | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Cts | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 31 | X |
| Cpo | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 11 | 13 | 21 | 26 | 19 | 20 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 17 | X |
| Chromosomes with partial G band correspondence | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Cts | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Cpo | 10 | 12 | 15 | 16 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Unique species chromosomes | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Cts | 12 | 13 | Y | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Cpo | 14 | 18 | Y | |||||||||||||||||||||||
1 Chromosome numbers are the one of each species karyotype (see Fig. 1); in the same column chromosomes with total or partial G band correspondence. Cts = Cavia tschudii, Cpo = Cavia porcellus.