Genomes of two water frog species resist
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Guerrini, Francesca; Bucci, Stefania; Ragghianti, Matilde; Mancino, Giorgio; Hot
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Article
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1997
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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Abundant natural interspecies hybrids between the European water frog Rana ridibunda and at least three other taxa reproduce hemiclonally, by hybridogenesis: the non-ridibunda genome is excluded in the germ line before meiosis, and the unrecombined ridibunda genome is transmitted to haploid gametes.