Chromosomal segregation and fertility in Robertsonian chromosomal heterozygotes of the house musk shrew (Suncus murinus, insectivora, soricidae)

Heredity

Volumn 81, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 335-341

  Rogatcheva, Margarita B ^a,b   Oda, Sen Ichi ^a   Axenovich, Tatiana I ^b   Aulchenko, Yurii S ^b   Searle, Jeremy B ^c   Borodin, Pavel M ^b  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b INSTITUTE OF CYTOLOGY AND GENETICS   (Russian Federation)

^c UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chromosomal segregation; Fertility; Robertsonian fusion; Shrew; Suncus murinus

Indexed keywords

CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; FERTILITY; GENE SEGREGATION; HETEROZYGOSITY;

ANIMALS; CHROMOSOMES; CROSSES, GENETIC; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; FERTILITY; HETEROZYGOTE; LITTER SIZE; MALE; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; PREGNANCY; SHREWS; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 0032168602     PISSN: 0018067X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.hdy.6883940     Document Type: Article

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