Equilocality and heterogeneity of constitutive heterochromatin: In situ localization of two families of highly repetitive DNA in Dociostaurus genei (Orthoptera)

Heredity

Volumn 76, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 70-76

  Rodriguez Inigo E ^a   Fernandez Calvin B ^b   Capel, J ^c   Garcia De La Vega C ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^c INIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Constitutive heterochromatin; Insect cytogenetics; Satellite DNA

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CHROMOSOME BANDING PATTERN; DNA PROBE; DNA SEQUENCE; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENETICS; GRASSHOPPER; HETEROCHROMATIN; MALE; METAPHASE; MITOSIS; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; TELOPHASE;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CHROMOSOME BANDING; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA; DNA PROBES; FEMALE; GRASSHOPPERS; HETEROCHROMATIN; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; MALE; METAPHASE; MITOSIS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TELOPHASE;

ANIMALIA; DOCIOSTAURUS GENEI; ORTHOPTERA;

EID: 0030051273     PISSN: 0018067X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/hdy.1996.9     Document Type: Article

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