Unraveling the Sex Chromosome Heteromorphism of the Paradoxical Frog Pseudis tocantins.

The paradoxical frog Pseudis tocantins is the only species in the Hylidae family with known heteromorphic Z and W sex chromosomes. The Z chromosome is metacentric and presents an interstitial nucleolar organizer region (NOR) on the long arm that is adjacent to a pericentromeric heterochromatic band....

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Published in:PLoS ONE
Main Authors: Kaleb Pretto Gatto, Carmen Silvia Busin, Luciana Bolsoni Lourenço
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-01-01
Online Access:https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0156176&type=printable