Genome size variation in the common frog Rana temporaria

Hereditas

Volumn 143, Issue 2006, 2006, Pages 155-158

  Matsuba, Chikako ^a   Merilä, Juha ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL DNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA CONTENT; DNA DETERMINATION; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FROG; GAMETE; GENDER IDENTITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; GENOME SIZE; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION (SPECIES); MALE; NONHUMAN; POPULATION GENETICS; POPULATION RESEARCH; SEX DIFFERENCE; SWEDEN;

ANIMALS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOME; MALE; RANA TEMPORARIA; VARIATION (GENETICS);

RANA TEMPORARIA;

EID: 34248218163     PISSN: 00180661     EISSN: 16015223     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.2006.0018-0661.01919.x     Document Type: Article

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