Characterization of mitotic chromosomes of the scarab beetles Glyphoderus sterquilinus (Westwood) and Bubas bison (L.) (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) using conventional and banding techniques

Biologisches Zentralblatt

Volumn 115, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 58-70

  Colomba, M S ^a,b   Monteresino, E ^a,b   Vitturi, R ^a,b   Zunino, M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

^b DEPARTAMENTO DE QUÍMICA   (Argentina)

Author keywords

banded chromosomes; heterochromatin; karyology; scarab beetles

Indexed keywords

ENDOGENOUS COMPOUND;

ARTICLE; BEETLE; CHROMOSOME; CHROMOSOME BANDING PATTERN; HETEROCHROMATIN; KARYOTYPE; NONHUMAN;

EID: 0029880601     PISSN: 00063304     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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