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Tetraploidy in the Boettger's dwarf clawed frog (Pipidae: Hymenochirus boettgeri) from the Congo indicates non-conspecificity with the captive population

  • 1. Institute of Vertebrate Biology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Brno, Czech Republic & National Museum of the Czech Republic, Department of Zoology, Prague, Czech Republic
  • 2. Department of Cell Biology, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Viničná 7, Prague 128 43, Czech Republic & Department of Biology, McMaster University, 1280 Main Street West, Hamilton, Ontario, L8S 4K1, Canada
  • 3. Department of Biology, National Institute for Research in Exact and Natural Sciences, Brazzaville, Republic of the Congo
  • 4. Department of Cell Biology, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Viničná 7, Prague 128 43, Czech Republic

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Gvoždík, Václav, Knytl, Martin, Zassi-Boulou, Ange-Ghislain, Fornaini, Nicola R., Bergelová, Barbora (2024): Tetraploidy in the Boettger's dwarf clawed frog (Pipidae: Hymenochirus boettgeri) from the Congo indicates non-conspecificity with the captive population. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 200 (4): 1034-1047, DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlad119, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlad119

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