Looking at Christmas trees in the nucleolus

Chromosoma

Volumn 105, Issue 7-8, 1997, Pages 470-480

  Scheer, Ulrich ^a   Xia, Bangying ^a,b   Merkert, Hilde ^a,c   Weisenberger, Dieter ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^d GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME DNA; RIBOSOME RNA;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; DNA TRANSCRIPTION; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LOCUST; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOLUS;

ABIES ALBA; ACRONICTA LEPORINA; ANIMALIA; LOCUSTA; LOCUSTA MIGRATORIA;

EID: 0030787606     PISSN: 00095915     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02510484     Document Type: Article

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