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Isolation of Giant Lampbrush Chromosomes from Living Oocytes of Frogs and Salamanders
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Immunological resolution of a diploid-tetraploid species complex of tree frogs
Science (New York, N.Y.)
|September 2, 1977
Abstract:
Micro-complement fixation studies of eastern and western populations of the North American tree frog Hyla chrysoscelis reveal they have been genetically isolated for about 4 million years. Immunological comparisons of populations of the cryptic tetraploid Hyla versicolor indicate a recent origin, from hybridization between eastern and western H. chrysoscelis.
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