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Table 8.

Cytogenetic information in Cucurbiteae #.

Genera studied	Species studied	Chromosome no.			Ploidy, Genome size, Chromosome features	References
Genera studied	Species studied	x	2n	n	Ploidy, Genome size, Chromosome features	References
Cayaponia Silva Manso, 1836	C.laciniosa Linnaeus, 1753		24^a		-	Kumar and Subramaniam (1987) ^a
Cucurbita		10^a, 12^b			-	Darlington and Janaki Ammal (1945) ^a,b
	C.andreana Naudin, 1896		40^a			CCDB ^a
	C.argyrosperma Huber, 1867 (syn. C.mixta Pangalo, 1930)		40^a		2C (flow cytometry): 0.748 pg^b	Sisko et al. (2003)^a,b
	C.cylindrata Bailey, 1943		40^a	20^b	-	CCDB ^a,b
	C.digitata Gray, 1853	10^a, 12^b	40^c	20^d	-	Darlington and Janaki Ammal (1945)^a,b, CCDB^c,d
	C.ecuadorensis Cutler et Whitaker, 1969				2C: 0.72pg^a	Plant DNA C Value database^a
	C.ficifolia Bouché, 1837 (syn. C.melanosperma Gasparrini, 1847)		40^a		2C (flow cytometry): 0.933pg^b	Plant DNA C- Values Database^a,b
	C.foetidissima Kunth, 1817	10^a, 12^b	40^c, 42^d		2C (flow cytometry): 0.686pg^e	Darlington and Janaki Ammal (1945)^a,b, Plant DNA C- Values Database^c,e, CCDB^c,d
	C.indica (unresolved)		40^a		-	IPCN ^a
	C.lundelliana Bailey, 1943			20^a	2C (flow cytometry): 0.72pg^b	CCDB^a, Plant DNA C Value database^b
	C.maxima Duchesne, 1786	20^a	24^b, 40^c, 44^d, 48^e	20^f		Kumar and Subramaniam (1987)^a,c,d,e, Beevy and Kuriachan (1996)^f, CCDB^c,f
	C.moschata Duchesne, 1786	10^a, 12^b	24^c, 40^d, 44^e,48^f		Diploid^g; 2C (Feulgen microdensitometry): 0.90pg^h; 2C (flow cytometry): 0.708ⁱ/ 0.97^jpg; 36 metacentric and 4 sub-metacentric chromosomes^k; CSR: 1.05-1.78μm^l, 45S (10) and 5S (4) rDNA signals^m	CCDB^f, Plant DNA C- Values Database^h,i, Kumar and Subramaniam (1987)^a-f, Barrow and Meister (2003)^j, Xu et al. (2007)^d,m, Waminal et al. (2011)^g,d,k,l,m
	C.okeechobeensisssp.martinezii Bailey, 1943		40^a		2C (flow cytometry): 0.74pg^b	Plant DNA C- Values Database^a,b
	C.palmata Watson, 1876	10^a, 12^b	40^c, 42^d	20^e	-	Kumar and Subramaniam (1987)^a,b, CCDB^c,d,e
	C.pedatifolia Bailey, 1943		40^a		-	CCDB ^a
	C.pepo Linnaeus, 1753	10^a, 12^b	22^c, 24^d, 28^e, 40^f, 42^g, 44^h, 46ⁱ, 80^j	20^k	2C (flow cytometry): 0.74pg^l; 0.864^m; 1.109 pg-1.064 pgⁿ; 1.18pg^o; 45S (10) and 5S (4) rDNA signals^p	Kumar and Subramaniam (1987)^a-j, CCDB^f,k, Marie and Brown (1993)^l, Barow and Meister (2003)^o, Rayburn (2008)ⁿ, Plant DNA C- Values Database^m, Xie et al. (2019b)^{f, p}
Sicana Naudin, 1862	S.odorifera Vellozo, 1831		40^a	20^b	-	IPCN ^a,b

# x: base number; 2n: zygotic number; n: gametic number; CCDB: Chromosome Counts Database; superscripts correspond to references.