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CSIRO PUBLISHING - Australian Journal of Zoology |
 | | In the present paper I compare chromosomal evolution in the monophyletic Diplodactylinae and that in the possibly polyphyletic Gekkoninae, to test whether the tribal subdivision made by Kluge (1983) is valid, or whether this is a far more heterogeneous group as Russell and Moffatt proposed. |
 | | In contrast, an analysis of 74 species from the Gekkoninae shows that eight distinct putative ancestral karyomorphs are present, 2n=32, 34, 36, 38, 40, 42, 44 and 46, each of which is acrocentric or telocentric. |
 | | These data suggest that the Gekkoninae are a polyphyletic assemblage, and group comparisons indicate that there is some agreement with the morphogroups proposed by Russell (1976). |
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