Claim · model-written summary
The 15-chromosome individual occurred in the same population as a 14-chromosome individual.
- Taxon
- Claytonia virginica L.
Claytonia virginicae0 - Outcome
- same populatione1
- Value
- 2n= 15e1
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Verbatim
e0“From a restricted range in eastern Texas three chromosome numbers for Claytonia virginica L. are reported.”
e1“individual with 2n= 15 chromosomes was collected in the same population as one with 14 chromosomes”
Title
Three Chromosome Numbers for Claytonia Virginica (Portulacaceae)
Walter H. Lewis The Southwestern Naturalist 1958. doi:10.2307/3669046
Other claims from this paper (9)
- Observation Three individuals had 14 somatic chromosomes.
- Observation One individual had 15 somatic chromosomes.
- Observation One individual had 28 somatic chromosomes.
- Association Individuals with different chromosome numbers showed no significant gross-morphology differences.
- Association Individuals with different chromosome numbers showed no significant pollen-size differences.
- Observation Mean pollen diameter was 63.6 u for Plant A with 14 chromosomes.
- Observation Mean pollen diameter was 55.6 u for Plant D with 15 chromosomes.
- Observation Mean pollen diameter was 61.9 u for Plant E with 28 chromosomes.
- Association The aneuploid plant had the smallest average pollen size, associated with occasional micro-pollen.