Chromosomal rearrangements in a Somali wild ass pedigree, Equus africanus somaliensis (Perissodactyla, Equidae)

Cytogenetics and Cell Genetics

Volumn 80, Issue 1-4, 1998, Pages 117-122

  Houck, Marlys L ^a   Kumamoto, A T ^a   Cabrera, R M ^a   Benirschke, K ^a  

^a ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACROCENTRIC CHROMOSOME; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME 2; CHROMOSOME C BAND; CHROMOSOME G BAND; CHROMOSOME POLYMORPHISM; CHROMOSOME REARRANGEMENT; DIPLOIDY; DONKEY; FEMALE; HORSE; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUMERICAL CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; PEDIGREE; PERISSODACTYLA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOMALIA;

ANIMALS; CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; CHROMOSOME DELETION; DIPLOIDY; EQUIDAE; FEMALE; GENE REARRANGEMENT; INVERSION, CHROMOSOME; MALE; PEDIGREE;

ANIMALIA; EQUIDAE; EQUUS; EQUUS ASINUS; EQUUS BURCHELLII; EQUUS CABALLUS; EQUUS HEMIONUS; EQUUS KIANG; PERISSODACTYLA; SOMALIA;

EID: 0031849972     PISSN: 03010171     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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