Supernumerary heterochromatin does not affect several morphological and physiological traits in the grasshopper Eyprepocnemis plorans

Hereditas

Volumn 126, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 187-189

  Martin Alganza A ^a,b   Cabrero, J ^a   Lopez Leon M D ^a   Perfectti, F ^a   Camacho, J P M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^b Max Plank Inst F V   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOSOME; DNA POLYMORPHISM; FEMALE; HETEROCHROMATIN; MALE; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; ORTHOPTERA; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; SUPERNUMERARY CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALIA; EYPREPOCNEMIS PLORANS; ORTHOPTERA;

EID: 0030858301     PISSN: 00180661     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1601-5223.1997.00187.x     Document Type: Article

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