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From an analysis of chromosomal mutations in seven species among five genera of marine triclads and polyclads, three different types of mechanisms of such mutations are identified: 1) rearrangement involving the centromere such that its position is changed, 2) rearrangement of whole chromosome arms, and 3) Robertsonian mechanisms. These mechanisms are the same as those reported for freshwater turbellarians, but aneuploidy and polyploidy, which are common in freshwater species, were not detected in these marine turbellarians.
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Galleni, L., Puccinelli, I. Chromosomal evolution in marine triclads and polyclads (Turbellaria). Hydrobiologia 132, 239–242 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00046255
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