Extraordinary centromeres: differences in the meiotic chromosomes of two rock lizards speciesDarevskia portschinskiiandDarevskia raddei

According to the synthesis of 30 years of multidisciplinary studies, parthenogenetic species of rock lizards of genus Darevskia were formed as a result of different combination patterns of interspecific hybridization of the four bisexual parental species: Darevskia raddei , D. mixta , D. valentini , and D. portschinskii . In particular, D. portschinskii and D. raddei are considered as the parental species for the parthenogenetic species D....