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IN the past fifty years, several papers have described the chromosomes of Isopoda, and the numbers for twenty-seven species have been recorded. Most of this work has been done by Vandel1,2. The numbers range from 6 to 60 taking the group as a whole, but some families may show less variation than others5 :
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MULDAL, S. An Isopod, Asellus meridianus Racovitza, with Low Chromosome Number. Nature 168, 1127–1128 (1951). https://doi.org/10.1038/1681127b0
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