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Allozymes and the hybrid origin of the parthenogenetic lizardCnemidophorus exsanguis

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Allozyme electrophoresis was used to determine the hybrid parentage of the triploid parthenogenetic speciesCnemidophorus exsanguis. 19 of 33 loci were polymorphic inC. exsanguis and/or the 7 potential bisexual progenitors. It was determined from allele distributions thatC. exsanguis containes genomes form 3 different species, probablyC. costatus, C. inornatus andC. septemvittatus.

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  1. Museum of Vertebrate Zoology and Department of Zoology, University of California, Berkeley, California, USA

    D. A. Good & J. W. Wright

  2. Section of Herpetology, Natural History Museum, Los Angeles, California, USA

    D. A. Good & J. W. Wright

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Acknowledgments. We thank R.L. Bezy, W.M. Brown, A.E. Greer, C.S. Lieb, J.L. Patton and K.L. Wright for assistance in the field; the Departments of Game and Fish of Arizona and New Mexico and the Direccion General de la Fauna Silvestre, Mexico for providing collecting permits; and R.L. Bezy, H.W. Greene and D.B. Wake for discussions and criticisms. This research was supported in part by NSF Grants DEB 76-20599 and DEB 81-05615 and by a Research Fellowship in Herpetology from the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County to DAG.

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Good, D.A., Wright, J.W. Allozymes and the hybrid origin of the parthenogenetic lizardCnemidophorus exsanguis . Experientia 40, 1012–1014 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01946485

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