%0 Journal Article
%@ 1993-0771
%A Garbar, А. V.
%A Onyschuк, І. Р.
%A Mezhzherіn, S. V.
%D 2009
%F zu2:9701
%I International Journal of Plant and Animal Cytogenetics, Karyosystematics, and Molecular Systematics
%J Comparative Cytogenetics
%K earthworms, Octolasion, Octodrilus, polyploidy, genetic structure,  morphology.
%N 2
%P 131-141
%T Polyploid races, genetic structure and morphological features of the earthworm Octodrіlus transpadanus (Rosa, 1884)  (Oligohaeta: Lumbricidae) in the Ukraine
%U http://eprints.zu.edu.ua/9701/
%V 3
%X Kariological investigation of the earthworm Octodrilus transpada-nus  (Rosa, 1884) in the Ukraine showed that this species is represented by at least three  races of different ploidy with the basic chromosome number n=15. Strict geographic  heterogeneity of electrophoretic spectra of different populations was registered:  south-eastern populations (7n=105) are characterized by a clonal structure, whereas  western (from 3n = 45 to 4n = 60) and south-western (2n=30) ones have a high level  of polymorphism. The Crimea sample (4n=60) is well isolated, has no clonal  structure and is characterized by a series of specifi c alleles , which are absent in  forms from continental Ukraine. All the forms turned out to be well