A high resolution GBG-banded karyotype of the Atlantic bottlenose dolphin, Tursiops truncatus: Generation of an ideogram, and NOR localization by fluorescence in situ hybridization

Cytogenetics and Cell Genetics

Volumn 78, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 6-11

  Bielec, P E ^a   Riggs, P K ^a   Womack, J E ^a   Busbee, D L ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOMAL LOCALIZATION; CHROMOSOME BANDING PATTERN; CHROMOSOME NOR; DNA PROBE; DOLPHIN; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; KARYOTYPE; KIDNEY EPITHELIUM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; CELL LINE; CHROMOSOME BANDING; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; DOLPHINS; FEMALE; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; KARYOTYPING; KIDNEY; METAPHASE; NUCLEOLUS ORGANIZER REGION;

EID: 0030840184     PISSN: 03010171     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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