Karyotype and nuclear DNA content of the Australian lungfish, Neoceratodus forsteri (ceratodidae: Dipnoi)

Cytogenetics and Cell Genetics

Volumn 73, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 187-189

  Rock, J ^a   Eldridge, M ^a   Champion, A ^a   Johnston, P ^a   Joss, J ^a  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL NUCLEUS DNA;

ACROCENTRIC CHROMOSOME; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOME C BAND; CONSTITUTIVE HETEROCHROMATIN; FEMALE; FISH; KARYOTYPE; MALE; MICROCHROMOSOME; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; AUSTRALIA; CELL NUCLEUS; CELLS, CULTURED; CHROMOSOME BANDING; DNA; FISHES; KARYOTYPING;

ANIMALIA; CERATODONTIDAE; DIPNOI; NEOCERATODUS FORSTERI;

EID: 0030018132     PISSN: 03010171     EISSN: 1424859X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000134336     Document Type: Article

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