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Polyploidy in Amphibia
Journal article

Polyploidy in Amphibia

Abstract

This review summarizes the current status of the known extant genuine polyploid anuran and urodelan species, as well as spontaneously originated and/or experimentally produced amphibian polyploids. The mechanisms by which polyploids can originate, the meiotic pairing configurations, the diploidization processes operating in polyploid genomes, the phenomenon of hybridogenesis, and the relationship between polyploidization and sex chromosome …

Authors

Schmid M; Evans BJ; Bogart JP

Journal

Cytogenetic and Genome Research, Vol. 145, No. 3-4, pp. 315–330

Publisher

Karger Publishers

Publication Date

2015

DOI

10.1159/000431388

ISSN

1424-8581