TTAGG telomeric repeats in chromosomes of some insects and other arthropods

Chromosome Research

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 449-460

  Sahara, Ken ^a,c   Marec, František ^b,c   Traut, Walther ^c  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b INSTITUTE OF ENTOMOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LÜBECK   (Germany)

Author keywords

Apis; Bombyx; Drosophila; Ephestia; Fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH); Galleria; Gammarus; Insect phylogeny; Ips; Locusta; Megaselia; Pyrrhocoris; Southern hybridization; Tegenaria; Telomere; Tenebrio

Indexed keywords

ARTHROPOD; ARTICLE; BEETLE; CHROMOSOME; COLEOPTERA; CRUSTACEA; DNA SEQUENCE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; FLY; HONEYBEE; HYMENOPTERA; INSECT; LEPIDOPTERA; LOCUST; MOTH; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; ORTHOPTERA; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SILKWORM; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; SPIDER; TELOMERE; WORM;

ANIMALS; ARTHROPODS; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE HINDIII; DNA PROBES; FEMALE; GENES, INSECT; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; MALE; PHYLOGENY; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; TELOMERE;

AMPHIPODA; ANAGASTA KUEHNIELLA; APIS; APIS MELLIFERA; APOIDEA; ARACHNIDA; ARANEAE; ARTHROPODA; BOMBYX; BOMBYX MORI; COLEOPTERA; CRUSTACEA; CURCULIONIDAE; DIPTERA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EPHESTIA; GALLERIA; GALLERIA MELLONELLA; GAMMARUS; GAMMARUS PULEX; HETEROPTERA; HEXAPODA; HYMENOPTERA; INSECTA; INVERTEBRATA; IPS; IPS TYPOGRAPHUS; KUEHNIELLA; LEPIDOPTERA; LOCUSTA; LOCUSTA MIGRATORIA; MEGASELIA SCALARIS; MELANOGASTER; ORTHOPTERA; PULEX; PYRRHOCORIS; PYRRHOCORIS APTERUS; SCOLYTINAE; TEGENARIA; TENEBRIO; TENEBRIO MOLITOR; TYPOGRAPHUS;

EID: 0032709102     PISSN: 09673849     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1009297729547     Document Type: Article

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