Genome size, cell size, and the evolution of enucleated erythrocytes in attenuate salamanders

Zoology

Volumn 111, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 218-230

  Mueller, Rachel Lockridge ^a,b   Ryan Gregory, T ^c   Gregory, Sean M ^c   Hsieh, Alice ^a   Boore, Jeffrey L ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^d LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Batrachoseps; Miniaturization; Nucleus; Plethodontidae; Red blood cells

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBIA; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BLOOD; CELL SIZE; ERYTHROCYTE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GENOME; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; CELL SIZE; ERYTHROCYTES; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOME; PHYLOGENY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; URODELA; VARIATION (GENETICS);

BATRACHOSEPS; MAMMALIA; PLETHODONTIDAE; SALAMANDROIDEA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 44949234786     PISSN: 09442006     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.zool.2007.07.010     Document Type: Article

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