Original Article

Heredity (1978) 41, 321–325; doi:10.1038/hdy.1978.102

The karyotype of the land snail Cepaea nemoralis (L.)

Catherine Page1

1Department of Biology and Geology, The Polytechnic of North London, Holloway Road, London N7

Received 10 January 1978.

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Abstract

A technique is described for obtaining mitotic figures from embryonic tissue. The karyotype is described and some evidence presented of a structural difference between two allopatric populations. The implications of the results are discussed.

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