Multiple supernumerary chromosomes in the pseudogamous parthenogenetic flatworm Polycelis nigra: Lineage markers or remnants of genetic leakage?

Genome

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 850-856

  Sharbel, Timothy F ^a   Pijnacker, Laas P ^b   Beukeboom, Leo W ^a,c  

^a Max Planck Institut for Behavioral Physiology Seewiesen   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^c LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

B chromosome; C banding; Heterochromatin; Heteromorphy; Pseudogamous parthenogenesis

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031415479     PISSN: 08312796     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/g97-810     Document Type: Article

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