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The mitotic and meiotic chromosomes of two groups of the iguanid lizard Tropidurus torquatus were studied after conventional staining, G- and C-banding and silver staining of nucleolar-organizer regions. Karyotypic variations involving the microchromosomes were observed in both groups and are, probably, related to the mechanisms of sex determination of the X1X2Y/X1X1X2X2 type in the one group, and of the XY/XX type in the other.
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Kasahara, S., Yonenaga-Yassuda, Y., Schincariol, R.A. et al. Chromosome mechanisms of sex determination, G- and C-band patterns and nucleolus organizer regions in Tropidurus torquatus (Sauria, Iguanidae). Genetica 60, 151–156 (1983). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00127501
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