Analysis of constitutive heterochromatin by fluorochromes and in situ digestion with restriction enzymes in species of the group Callithrix argentata (Callitrichidae, Primates)

Cytogenetics and Cell Genetics

Volumn 72, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 325-330

  Pieczarka, J C ^a,b   Nagamachi, C Y ^b   Barros, R M S ^b   Mattevi, M S ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PARÁ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUOROCHROME; RESTRICTION ENDONUCLEASE; FLUORESCENT DYE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; HETEROCHROMATIN; KARYOTYPE; NONHUMAN; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ANIMAL; CHROMOSOME BANDING PATTERN; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; GENETICS; KARYOTYPING; MALE; MARMOSET; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; X CHROMOSOME; Y CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALS; CALLITHRIX; CHROMOSOME BANDING; DNA RESTRICTION ENZYMES; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT DYES; HETEROCHROMATIN; KARYOTYPING; MALE; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; X CHROMOSOME; Y CHROMOSOME;

EID: 0029670404     PISSN: 03010171     EISSN: 1424859X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000134215     Document Type: Article

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