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Science 2 September 1977:
Vol. 197. no. 4307, pp. 1012 - 1013
DOI: 10.1126/science.197.4307.1012
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Immunological Resolution of a Diploid-Tetraploid Species Complex of Tree Frogs

LINDA MAXSON 1, ELLENDEE PEPPER 1, and R. D. MAXSON 1

1 Department of Genetics and Development, University of Illinois, Urbana 61801

Micro-complement fixation studies of eastern and western populations of the North American tree frog Hyla chrysoscelis reveal they have been genetically isolated for about 4 million years. Immunological comparisons of populations of the cryptic tetraploid Hyla versicolor indicate a recent origin, from hybridization between eastern and western H. chrysoscelis.

Submitted on February 11, 1977
Revised on March 29, 1977


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