Orientation of the 'stretched' univalent X chromosome during the unequal first meiotic division in male aphids

Chromosome Research

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 177-181

  Spence, Jennifer M ^a   Blackman, Roger L ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Amphorophora tuberculata; Aphid spermatogenesis; Multicolour fluorescence in situ labelling; Myzus persicae

Indexed keywords

REPETITIVE DNA;

ANAPHASE; ANIMAL CELL; APHID; ARTICLE; CELL DIVISION; CHROMATID; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; MEIOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPERMATOGENESIS; X CHROMOSOME;

AMPHOROPHORA TUBERCULATA; MYZUS PERSICAE;

EID: 0031967253     PISSN: 09673849     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1009203500012     Document Type: Article

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