Unordered arrangement of chromosomes in the nuclei of chicken spermatozoa

Chromosoma

Volumn 107, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 184-188

  Solovei, Irina V ^a   Joffe, Boris I ^b   Hori, Tetsua ^d   Thomson, Philippa ^c   Mizuno, Shigeki ^d   Macgregor, Herbert C ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b ZOOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^d NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS; CHICKEN; CHROMOSOME; CHROMOSOME NUMBER; CHROMOSOME SIZE; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; KARYOTYPE; MALE; NONHUMAN; SEX CHROMOSOME; SPERM; TELOMERE;

ANIMALS; CELL NUCLEUS; CHICKENS; CHROMOSOMES; DNA PROBES; FEMALE; GENE REARRANGEMENT; HETEROCHROMATIN; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; MALE; PLASMIDS; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SEX CHROMOSOMES; SPERMATOZOA; TELOMERE;

ANIMALIA; GALLUS GALLUS;

EID: 0031927119     PISSN: 00095915     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004120050295     Document Type: Article

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