Volume : III, Issue : II, February - 2014

C–Band Variation in Indian Caecilians (Amphibia: Gymnophiona)

Venu Govindappa

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Application of C-banding on the chromosomes of caecilians has enabled in discriminating family- level organization rather than throwing some clues on either interspecific or intraspecific speciation. C-bands were particularly conspicuous at their centromeric region of almost all members of those species belonging to Ichthyophis, wherein both biarmed and uniarmed chromosomes were shown to represent positive C-band discrepancies, but were not so apparent in the cases of species belonging to Uraeotyphlus and Gegeneophis. All the biarmed chromosomes were shown to profile a scarce representation in the case of Uraeotyphlus and whereas none in the case of Gegeneophis, whie acrocentrics did possess C-bands at their centromeric regions; in the case of Uraeotyphlus caecilians but not in the Gegeneophis.

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Venu Govindappa C-Band Variation in Indian Caecilians (Amphibia: Gymnophiona) International Journal of Scientific Research, Vol.III, Issue.II February 2014

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