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The karyotype ofTyphlonectes compressicauda (Amphibia: Gymnophiona) with comments on chromosome evolution in caecilians

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Typhlonectes compressicauda has a diploid number of 28. Its karyotype, when compared to that of other caecilians, suggests some discordance in the hypothesized model of chromosome reduction in the evolution of amphibian lineages.

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  1. Museum of Vertebrate Zoology and Department of Zoology, University of California, 94720, Berkeley, CA, USA

    M. H. Wake, J. C. Hafner, M. S. Hafner, L. L. Klosterman & J. L. Patton

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We thank Sharon B. Emerson and Diana Diehl, University of Illinois at Chicago Circle, for helping us to acquire specimens. The work was supported by National Science Foundation Grant DEB 77-22642 to MHW.

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Wake, M.H., Hafner, J.C., Hafner, M.S. et al. The karyotype ofTyphlonectes compressicauda (Amphibia: Gymnophiona) with comments on chromosome evolution in caecilians. Experientia 36, 171–172 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01953713

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