Chapter 2 Genetics of Xenopus laevis

Methods in Cell Biology

Volumn 36, Issue C, 1991, Pages 19-34

  Graf, Jean Daniel ^a   Kobel, Hans Rudolf ^b  

^a Laboratoire d' Examens Biologiques Hˆpital Cantonal Universitaire 1211 Genève 4 ^*  (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ISOENZYME;

ANIMAL; CELL DIVISION; CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOME MAP; CYTOCHEMISTRY; GENETICS; GENOME; KARYOTYPING; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; REVIEW; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

ANIMAL; CELL DIVISION; CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; GENOME; HISTOCYTOCHEMISTRY; ISOENZYMES; KARYOTYPING; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 0026272190     PISSN: 0091679X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0091-679X(08)60270-8     Document Type: Article

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