Rod-shaped Bivalents indicate new assemblage among anatolian water frog populations

Amphibia Reptilia

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 47-53

  Keskin, Nurşen Alpagut ^a   Mutaf, Beria Falakali ^b  

^a EGE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b AKDENIZ UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHROMOSOME; FROG; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; MORPHOLOGY; NEW GENUS; POPULATION TYPE;

AKSEHIR; ANATOLIA; EGIRDIR LAKE; EURASIA; GELENDOST; ISPARTA [TURKEY]; IZMIR [TURKEY]; KONYA [TURKEY]; TURKEY;

ANURA; RANA EPEIROTICA; RANA RIDIBUNDA; RANA SHQIPERICA;

EID: 34547817693     PISSN: 01735373     EISSN: 15685381     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/156853806776052083     Document Type: Article

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