True polyploid meiosis in the human male
Abstract Polyploidy does not usually occur in germinal cells of mammals and other higher vertebrates. We describe a unique example of mosaic autotetraploidy in the meiosis of a human male. Although the original observations were made in the late 1960s, we did not publish them at that time, because w...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Sociedade Brasileira de Genética
2018-05-01
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Series: | Genetics and Molecular Biology |
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Online Access: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1415-47572018005009101&lng=en&tlng=en |