Germ cell restriction and regular transmission of an accessory chromosome that mimics a sex body in the zebra finch, Taeniopygia guttata

Chromosome Research

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 105-113

  Pigozzi, M I ^a   Solari, A J ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Accessory chromosome; Meiosis; Pseudo sex vesicle; Synaptonemal complex

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BIRD; BONE MARROW CELL; GERM CELL; HETEROCHROMATIN; MEIOSIS; MITOSIS; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION MAPPING; SOMATIC CELL; SPERMATID; SPERMATOCYTE; SUPERNUMERARY CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALS; BIRDS; CHROMOSOMES; FEMALE; KARYOTYPING; MALE; OOCYTES; SEX DETERMINATION (GENETICS); SPERMATOCYTES; SPERMATOGENESIS; SYNAPTONEMAL COMPLEX;

EID: 0031886084     PISSN: 09673849     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1009234912307     Document Type: Article

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