The Mexican Axolotl: Some Misconceptions and Problems
- 1 July 1969
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in BioScience
- Vol. 19 (7), 593-615
- https://doi.org/10.2307/1294932
Abstract
The taxonomic status, names (scientific, family, common) and problems in systematics of the single species of popular experimental animal properly known in life stages as the axolotl, Ambystoma mexicanum (Shaw), are discussed. Most experimental stocks have become uniformly neotenic through selection, whereas transformation occurs frequently in freshly caught material.Keywords
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