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A chromosomal survey of four species of gekkonid lizards
1Department of Zoology, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India.
Cytobios
|January 1, 1992
Abstract:
The karyotypes of the gekkonids were serially graded from the largest to the smallest in the diploid complement. The majority of the chromosomes were subtelocentric. The diploid number was 2n = 38 in Gekko gecko and 2n = 40 in the three species of the genus Hemidactylus examined. A comparative morphometric analysis of the diploid sets of these four members suggested a cytotaxonomic relationship and a possible mode of speciation in this group of reptiles.