✦ LIBER ✦
A chromosome arm number index and its application to the phylogeny and classification of lemurs
✍ Scribed by Robert B. Eckhardt
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1969
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 247 KB
- Volume
- 31
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0002-9483
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✦ Synopsis
A method is described for assessing the degree to which chromosome evolution via centric fusion has occurred within a taxonomic group, using a numerical index which expresses the average number of major chromosome arms per chromosome in a diploid cell. Index values thus calculated agree with a previously proposed plan of prosimian phylogeny, and substantiate some recently suggested changes in taxonomic groups of the Lemurs, based on karyotypic evidence.