0 a group of four cells produced during cell division
1 a group of four cells produced during cell division
The rest of the mutations were clearly generated during meiosis and occurred in tetrads with any progenitor alleles.
For grey squirrels the expansion in tetrads occupied appeared to rise asymptotically, with the expansion declining after 1999.
A subset of clones was verified more thoroughly by measuring under r40 magnification the sizes of the haploid colonies obtained after tetrad dissection.
Red squirrels may have recolonized tetrads from which they were lost in the last 2 years of the sample period.
There was no significant relationship between duration of overlap and the amount of conifer present in each tetrad.
None of the models above provides an explanation for the duplications seen in tetrads nos. 26 and 28.
We then estimated the effectiveness of control by predicting the number of tetrads in which red squirrel populations survived in 2003.
The other three spores in these tetrads were non-mutants.