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THIS is a preliminary report of an investigation in progress dealing with cytogenetics of orthopteran insects of the southern hemisphere belonging to the family Acrididae and new to cytology. In this report the number of chromosomes is established, taking specially into account the existence of metacentric chromosomes. We have studied thirty-two species of four subfamilies, as shown in Table 1.
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SAEZ, F. Cytogenetics of South American Orthoptera. Nature 177, 490 (1956). https://doi.org/10.1038/177490a0
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