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The paper deals with problem of estimating the ratio of DNA densities in heterochromatin and euchromatin from C-band karyotypes of related species, when the observations are subject to errors of measurement. Using a set of data published for Lolium it is shown that under realistic assumptions about the error variances no significant difference of the densities in the two types of chromatin can be detected.
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Timischl, W., Greilhuber, J. Estimation of relative DNA density in heterochromatin from C-band karyotypes (Critical remarks). Heredity 51, 665–668 (1983). https://doi.org/10.1038/hdy.1983.78
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