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Published in final edited form as: Front Ecol Evol. 2022 Mar 17;10:832378. doi: 10.3389/fevo.2022.832378

TABLE 1 |.

Traits recorded in karyotype databases.

Trait	States
Taxonomy	Family/Subfamily; Tribe; Genus; Species
Haploid Chromosome Number	2–13
Chromosome Shapes	Submetacentric; Metacentric; Subtelocentric; Telocentric; Subacrocentric; Acrocentric; Dot; Sex Chromosome Shape
Chromosome Shapes (Drosophila specific)	V for Metacentric; J for Submetacentric; Rod for Telocentric/Acrocentric
Sex Chromosome System	Complex XY; XO; XY; ZW; Monogenic
References	Citation for the sources of data included in the database