Variation across amphibian species in the size of the nuclear genome supports a pluralistic, hierarchical approach to the C-value enigma

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 79, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 329-339

  Gregory, T Ryan ^a  

^a DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cell size; DNA content; Genome size; Metabolic rate; Nucleotype

Indexed keywords

GENOME; LIZARD;

AMPHIBIA; AMPHIUMA MEANS; CAUDATA;

EID: 0038129545     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1095-8312.2003.00191.x     Document Type: Article

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