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| Provedor de dados: |
Rev. Bras. Zool.
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| País: |
Brazil
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| Título: |
Evolution of erythrocyte morphology in amphibians (Amphibia: Anura)
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| Autores: |
Wei,Jie
Li,Yan-Yan
Wei,Li
Ding,Guo-Hua
Fan,Xiao-Li
Lin,Zhi-Hua
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| Data: |
2015-10-01
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| Ano: |
2015
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| Palavras-chave: |
Amphibia
Ancestral state reconstruction
Erythrocyte size
Morphological comparison
Nucleus size.
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| Resumo: |
ABSTRACT We compared the morphology of the erythrocytes of five anurans, two toad species - Bufo gargarizans (Cantor, 1842) and Duttaphrynus melanostictus (Schneider, 1799) and three frog species - Fejervarya limnocharis (Gravenhorst, 1829), Microhyla ornata (Duméril & Bibron, 1841), and Rana zhenhaiensis (Ye, Fei & Matsui, 1995). We then reconstructed the ancestral state of erythrocyte size (ES) and nuclear size (NS) in amphibians based on a molecular tree. Nine morphological traits of erythrocytes were all significantly different among the five species. The results of principal component analysis showed that the first component (49.1% of variance explained) had a high positive loading for erythrocyte length, nuclear length, NS and ratio of erythrocyte length/erythrocyte width; the second axis (28.5% of variance explained) mainly represented erythrocyte width and ES. Phylogenetic generalized least squares analysis showed that the relationship between NS and ES was not affected by phylogenetic relationships although there was a significant linear relationship between these two variables. These results suggested that (1) the nine morphological traits of erythrocytes in the five anuran species were species-specific; (2) in amphibians, larger erythrocytes generally had larger nuclei.
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| Tipo: |
Info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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| Idioma: |
Inglês
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http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1984-46702015000500360
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| Editor: |
Sociedade Brasileira de Zoologia
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| Relação: |
10.1590/S1984-46702015000500005
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| Fonte: |
Zoologia (Curitiba) v.32 n.5 2015
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info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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