Chiasma localization, heterochromatin and synaptonemal complexes in the grasshopper Pyrgomorpna conica

Chromosome Research

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 69-76

  Del Cerro, A L ^a   Fernandez A ^a   Santos, J L ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Chiasma localization; Grasshopper; Heterochromatin; Sex; Synaptonemal complexes

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME BANDING PATTERN; CHROMOSOME CHIASM; CHROMOSOME PAIRING; FEMALE; HETEROCHROMATIN; MALE; MEIOSIS; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; ORTHOPTERA; PACHYTENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPERMATOCYTE; SYNAPTONEMAL COMPLEX;

ANIMALS; CHROMATIDS; CHROMATIN; CHROMOSOME BANDING; CHROMOSOMES; FEMALE; GRASSHOPPERS; KARYOTYPING; MALE; MEIOSIS; METAPHASE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; SPERMATOCYTES; SYNAPTONEMAL COMPLEX;

ANIMALIA; ORTHOPTERA; PYRGOMORPHA CONICA;

EID: 0030028824     PISSN: 09673849     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02254948     Document Type: Article

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