Divergent karyotypes of the annual killifish genus Nothobranchius (Cyprinodontiformes, Nothobranchiidae)

Eugene Krysanov1, Tatiana Demidova1, Bela Nagy2

  • 1Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Russian Academy of Sciences, Leninsky prospect, Moscow, 119071 Russia.

Comparative Cytogenetics
|November 11, 2016
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