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This is the first in a series of articles, by different authors, to appear in this journal under the editorship of Professor Chiarelli, supplementing the data published in ‘Cytotaxonomy and Vertebrate Evolution’ (A.B. Chiarelli & E. Capanna, eds, Academic Press, London & New York, 1973)-Eds.

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Morescalchi, A. New developments in vertebrate cytotaxonomy I. cytotaxonomy of the amphibians. Genetica 50, 179–193 (1979). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00122043

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