The oocyte of triploid fluke receiving intrusion of sperm from a diploid fluke - Evidence for the origin of tetraploids in Paragonimus westermani

Journal of Parasitology

Volumn 82, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 947-950

  Terasaki, Kunio ^a   Shibahara, Toshiyuki ^a,b   Noda, Yasutaka ^a,c   Kayano, Hiroshi ^a,d  

^a ST MARY S COLLEGE   (Japan)

^b TOTTORI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c KURUME UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^d Kujyu Highland Institute of Biology   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CERCARIA; CHINA; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; JAPAN; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; TREMATODE;

ANIMALS; CATS; DIPLOIDY; DOGS; FEMALE; LUNG; MALE; OOCYTES; PARAGONIMIASIS; PARAGONIMUS; POLYPLOIDY; SPERM-OVUM INTERACTIONS; SPERMATOZOA;

EID: 0030464075     PISSN: 00223395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3284204     Document Type: Article

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