Hybridogenetic reproduction of Pelophylax water frogs from different R-E hemiclonal population systems from Eastern Ukraine: selective mortality, clonal and ploidy diversity
Anna Fedorova, Eleonora Pustovalova, Mykola Drohvalenko, Olha Biriuk, Marie Doležálková‐Kaštánková, Maryna Kravchenko, Olexii Korshunov, Peter Mikulíček, Lukáš Choleva, Dmytro Holovnia, Dmitrij Dedukh, Dmytro Shabanov
Siverskyi Donets water frog systems lacking P. lessonae split into diploid-only and diploid-plus-triploid hybrid types, with clonal, low-diversity L-genomes and steep tadpole-to-adult loss of P. ridibundus.
Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society · May 14, 2025Peer-reviewedZoology✦ In-depth digest