Evidence for two successive pericentric inversions in sex lampbrush chromosomes of Rana rugosa (Anura: Ranidae)

Chromosoma

Volumn 106, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 178-182

  Miura, Ikuo ^a   Ohtani, Hiromi ^a   Hanada, Hideki ^a   Ichikawa, Youko ^b   Kashiwagi, Akihiko ^a   Nakamura, Masahisa ^a  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Hiroshima Women's University   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME CHIASM; FEMALE; FROG; MALE; NONHUMAN; PERICENTRIC CHROMOSOME INVERSION; SEX CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALS; CROSSES, GENETIC; FEMALE; MALE; MICROSCOPY, PHASE-CONTRAST; RANIDAE; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SEX CHROMOSOMES;

ANURA; RANA RUGOSA; RANIDAE;

EID: 0030924065     PISSN: 00095915     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004120050237     Document Type: Article

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