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| Wei,Jie; Li,Yan-Yan; Wei,Li; Ding,Guo-Hua; Fan,Xiao-Li; Lin,Zhi-Hua. |
| 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... |
| Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: Amphibia; Ancestral state reconstruction; Erythrocyte size; Morphological comparison; Nucleus size.. |
| Ano: 2015 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1984-46702015000500360 |
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