Meiotic behaviour of holocentric chromosomes: Orientation and segregation of autosomes in Triatoma infestans (Heteroptera)

Chromosome Research

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 47-56

  Pérez, Rubén ^b   Panzera, Francisco ^b   Page, Jesús ^a   Suja, José A ^a   Rufas, Julio S ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE LA REPÚBLICA   (Uruguay)

Author keywords

Chiasma terminalization; Chromosome segregation; Hemiptera; Holocentric chromosomes; Meiosis; Triatoma infestans

Indexed keywords

ANAPHASE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOSOME; CHROMOSOME C BAND; CHROMOSOME CHIASM; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; HETEROCHROMATIN; KINETICS; MALE; MEIOSIS; METAPHASE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPERMATOCYTE; TRIATOMA INFESTANS;

ANAPHASE; ANIMALS; CHROMATIDS; CHROMATIN; CHROMOSOME BANDING; CHROMOSOMES; EUCHROMATIN; HETEROCHROMATIN; MEIOSIS; METAPHASE; PROPHASE; TELOMERE; TRIATOMA; X CHROMOSOME; Y CHROMOSOME;

EID: 0030937609     PISSN: 09673849     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1018493419208     Document Type: Article

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