Comparative cytogenetic analysis of European brown frogs: Rana temporaria, R. dalmatina and R. graeca

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Comparative cytogenetic analysis of European brown frogs: Rana temporaria, R. dalmatina and R. graeca a

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Olivera Spasić-Bošković , Nikola Tanić , Jelena a

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Blagojević & Mladen Vujošević a

Department of Genetics, Institute for Biological Research «Siniša Stanković», 11060 Belgrade, Yugoslavia Published online: 31 Jan 2014.

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Received 29 November 1996; revision accepted 19 May 1997