A family of centromeric satellite DNAs from the European brown frog Rana graeca italica

Genome

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 774-781

  Cardone, Daniela Ester ^a   Feliciello, Isidoro ^a   Marotta, Marcello ^a   Rosati, Claudia ^a   Chinali, Gianni ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

Amphibian chromosomes; Nucleotide sequence analysis; Satellite DNA; Tandem repeats organization

Indexed keywords

FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; RANA DALMATINA; RANA GRAECA; REPETITIVE DNA; SATELLITE DNA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SOUTHERN BLOTTING;

EID: 0031252007     PISSN: 08312796     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/g97-800     Document Type: Article

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