Satellite DNA repeat sequence variation is low in three species of burying beetles in the genus Nicrophorus (Coleoptera: Silphidae)

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 14, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 1088-1095

  King, Lynn Mertens ^a   Cummings, Michael P ^b  

^a Department of Biology   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

REPETITIVE DNA;

ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; COLEOPTERA; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; NONHUMAN; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

EID: 0030784674     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.molbev.a025718     Document Type: Article

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