Interchromosomal, intercellular and interindividual variability of NORs studied with silver staining and in situ hybridization

Heredity

Volumn 78, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 229-234

  Zurita, Federico ^b   Sánchez, Antonio ^a,b   Burgos, Miguel ^b   Jiménez, Rafael ^b   De La Guardia, Rafael Díaz ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JAÉN   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Ag staining; in situ hybridization; NOR; nucleolar organizing regions; ribosomal cistrons

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031106014     PISSN: 0018067X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/hdy.1997.36     Document Type: Article

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