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Science 7 May 1971:
Vol. 172. no. 3983, pp. 564 - 565
DOI: 10.1126/science.172.3983.564
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Multiple Genotypes in Individuals of Claytonia virginica

Walter H. Lewis 1, Royce L. Oliver 1, and Terry J. Luikart 1

1 Department of Biology, Washington University, and Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis 63110

Supernumerary chromosomes are common among plants of Claytonia virginica found in a weedy population near the southwestern edge of its distribution. Roots, stems, and microsporocytes vary in chromosome number within the same plant in 68 percent of the population studied.


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