Acipenser sinensis

2n=264±; 78 m, 20 sm, 166 a+mc, 362 FN Yu X. Zhou T. Li K. Li Y. and Zhou M. 1987. On the karyosystematics of cyprinid fishes and a summary of fish chromosome studies in China. Genetica 72: 225-236 Abstract
2n=156-276 Ye XH, Liu HQ, Yu XM, Zhang YB, Chang JB.1999. Preliminary research on tissue culture of Chinese sturgeon. Acta Hydrobiology Sinica 23, 566-571. (In Chinese) Abstract
2n=264 (mode) Zhou GZ. Gui L. Li ZQ. Yuan XP. Zhang QY. 2008. Establishment of a Chinese sturgeon Acipenser sinensis tail-fin cell line and its susceptibility to frog iridovirus. J. Fish Biol.73: 2058-2067 Abstract

m = metacentric; sm = submetacentric; a = acrocentric; mc = micro chromosomes; FN = fondamental number