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Triploid cells found in intramolluscan stages of Schistosoma mansoni
1Department of Microbiology, School of Medicine, State University of New York, Buffalo 14214.
The Journal of Parasitology
|October 1, 1989
Abstract:
Cells from the intramolluscan stage of Schistosoma mansoni were observed to contain 24 chromosomes. Karyotype and C-band analysis of these cells showed that the chromosomes consisted of 3 complete sets of 8 haploid chromosomes. It was concluded that these cells are triploid (3n).