Persistent high levels of tetraploidy in salamanders of the Ambystoma jeffersonianum complex

Journal of Herpetology

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 530-535

  Phillips, Christopher A ^a,b   Uzzell, Thomas ^a,d   Spolsky, Christina M ^a,d   Serb, Jeanne M ^b   Szafoni, Robert E ^c   Pollowy, Timothy R ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS   (United States)

^c ILLINOIS DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES   (United States)

^d ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES OF DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e Applied Ecological Services   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMBYSTOMA JEFFERSONIANUM;

EID: 0031466366     PISSN: 00221511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1565605     Document Type: Article

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