Rana esculenta Linnaeus is a hybrid between R. ridibunda Pallas and R. lessonae
Camerano. Diploid individuals usually occur in populations with R. lessonae (LE system)�…

The common European edible frog (Rana esculenta Linnaeus) is a hybrid between R.
ridibunda Pallas (the lake frog) and Rana lessonae Camerano (the pool frog). Females of�…

The diploid hybridogenetic frog Rana esculenta, an interspecific hybrid of R. ridibunda and
R. lessonae, usually transmits its ridibunda genome to progeny: the lessonae genome is lost�…

Abstract mtDNA of the hybridogenetic hybrid frog Rana esculenta from Switzerland, Austria,
and Poland was compared to mtDNA of the parental species R. ridibunda and R. lessonae�…

Several enzymes (lactate dehydrogenase, α-glycerophosphate dehydrogenase,
glucosephosphate isomerase, creatine kinase, phosphoglucomutase, and aspartate�…

Controlled crossing experiments are an important tool in evolutionary genetics and its
interfaces with population biology, ecolog'y, and phylogenetics. This tool has been and�…

Abundant natural interspecies hybrids between the European water frog Rana ridibunda
and at least three other taxa reproduce hemiclonally, by hybridogenesis: the non‐ridibunda�…

The characteristic spotting pattern of the wild-type leopard frog, Rana pipiens, is the
manifestation of a main spotting locus operating in concert with an integrated system of�…

Mitotic chromosomes of the European water frogs Rana ridibunda and Rana lessonae, the
parental species of Rana esculenta, differ significantly in their centromeric regions: when C�…

Diploid F1 hybrids between Rana ridibunda from Adriatic SW Yugoslavia and Polish R.
lessonae, and between Polish R. ridibunda and an unnamed species from SW Yugoslavia�…