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The karyology of the genus Procerodes (Tricladida: Maricola) in British waters

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2009

Lodovico Galleni
Affiliation:
Istituto di Zoologia e Anatomia comparata, Università di Pisa, Italy
Ileana Puccinelli
Affiliation:
Istituto di Zoologia e Anatomia comparata, Università di Pisa, Italy

Extract

A karyometric analysis of the diploid complement of two species of the genus Procerodes (Tricladida: Maricola), both from British waters, has been carried out

The diploid number of Procerodes littoralis, 2n = 14, was established on mitosis from regenerative blastema and the haploid number n = 7 from spermatocyte I stages. All the chromosomes are metacentric, their centromeric index varying from 47·91 in the chromosome 5 to 38·39 in the chromosome 4.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1979

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