User talk:Charles Plessy

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Hello, Charles Plessy, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions, especially your edits to List of organisms by chromosome count. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few links to pages you might find helpful:

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Oikopleura dioica

Since you used a fairly obscure reference, I'm unable to check the citation. "3" is an extraordinarily unlikely chromosome number - the way eukaryotic reproduction works, they are essentially always in pairs. I suspect the actual number for this organism is 6, and the count given is the number of pair. Could you please re-reverify from your reference? Thank you, Tarl N. (discuss) 17:46, 10 August 2018 (UTC)

Thank you very much for the check. Good catch indeed. I just corrected the number (from haploid to diploid). About the reference, it is available in JSTOR at the URL https://www.jstor.org/stable/43261846 (URL added to the reference). Its figure 19 shows the chromosomes. Charles Plessy (talk) 21:40, 10 August 2018 (UTC)