Non-telomeric chromosome localization of (TTAGGG)(n) repeats in the genus Eulemur

Chromosome Research

Volumn 5, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 487-491

  Garagna, Silvia ^a   Ronchetti, Elena ^a   Mascheretti, Silvia ^a   Crovella, Sergio ^a   Formenti, Daniele ^a   Rumpler, Yves ^b   Romanini, Maria G Manfredi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

Author keywords

Eulemur; Heterochromatin; Telomeric sequence

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOMAL LOCALIZATION; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CONSTITUTIVE HETEROCHROMATIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; HETEROCHROMATIN; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; METAPHASE CHROMOSOME; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSIMIAN; TELOMERE;

ANIMALIA; EULEMUR; EULEMUR CORONATUS; EULEMUR FULVUS FULVUS; EULEMUR MACACO; EULEMUR RUBRIVENTER; STREPSIRHINI;

EID: 0030830313     PISSN: 09673849     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1018425215516     Document Type: Article

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