Interspecific movement of the paternal sex ratio chromosome

Heredity

Volumn 81, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 261-269

  Dobson, Stephen L ^a,b   Tanouye, Mark A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

B chromosome; Chalcidoidea; N. longicornis; N. vitripennis; Nasonia giraulti; Paternal sex ratio chromosome

Indexed keywords

AUTOSOME; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; GENETIC CROSS; HYBRID; INTERSPECIFIC HYBRIDIZATION; MEIOSIS;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; HYBRIDIZATION, GENETIC; MALE; MODELS, GENETIC; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEX CHROMOSOMES; SEX RATIO; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; WASPS;

CHALCIDOIDEA; INSECTA; INVERTEBRATA; NASONIA GIRAULTI; NASONIA LONGICORNIS; NASONIA VITRIPENNIS;

EID: 0032168669     PISSN: 0018067X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.hdy.6883720     Document Type: Article

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