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New developments in vertebrate cytotaxonomy II. the chromosomes of the cartilaginous fishes

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This is the second 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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Stingo, V. New developments in vertebrate cytotaxonomy II. the chromosomes of the cartilaginous fishes. Genetica 50, 227–239 (1979). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00122048

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