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THE amphibian anurans constitute very interesting material, not only for the cytogenetic study of the evolutionary mechanism of sex determination, but also because they offer prospects from the evolutionary, phylogenetic and cytotaxonomic points of view.
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SAEZ, F., BRUM, N. Chromosomes of South American Amphibians. Nature 185, 945 (1960). https://doi.org/10.1038/185945a0
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