Preparation of insect chromosomes for immunolabeling

Biotechnic and Histochemistry

Volumn 71, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 137-144

  Wolf, Klaus Werner ^a   Glatzel, Sabine ^a   Niedereichholz, Frauke ^a   Turner, Bryan M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LÜBECK   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

antibody; chromosome; cytospin preparation; histone acetylation; spermatogenesis

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; HISTONE ANTIBODY;

ACETYLATION; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY LABELING; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME PREPARATION; LARVA; LOCUST; MALE; NONHUMAN; SPERMATOGENESIS; TECHNIQUE;

EID: 0029888672     PISSN: 10520295     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/10520299609117150     Document Type: Article

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