Banding patterns, multiple sex chromosome system and localization of telomeric (TTAGGG)n sequences by FISH on two species of Polychrus (Squamata, Polychrotidae)

Caryologia

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 217-226

  Bertolotto, Carolina Elena Viña ^a,b   Rodrigues, Miguel Trefaut ^a   Yonenaga Yassuda, Yatiyo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SANTO AMARO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Banding patterns; FISH; Lizards; Multiple sex chromosomes

Indexed keywords

EID: 0005564326     PISSN: 00087114     EISSN: 21655391     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00087114.2001.10589229     Document Type: Article

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