Large eggs and ploidy of green frog populations in Central Europe

Amphibia Reptilia

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 149-158

  Czarniewska, Elzbieta ^a   Rybacki, Mariusz ^b   Pabijan, Maciej ^c   Berger, Leszek ^d  

^a ADAM MICKIEWICZ UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^b KAZIMIERZ WIELKI UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^c JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^d INSTITUTE FOR AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST ENVIRONMENT   (Poland)

Author keywords

egg size; hybridogenesis; Pelophylax esculentus complex; population

Indexed keywords

EGG; FROG; HYBRID; PLOIDY; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SPAWNING;

CENTRAL EUROPE;

ANURA; PELOPHYLAX; RANA CLAMITANS;

EID: 79955586249     PISSN: 01735373     EISSN: 15685381     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/017353710X546495     Document Type: Article

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