Chromosomal evolution in the Brazilian lizards of genus Leposoma (Squamata, Gymnophthalmidae) from Amazon and Atlantic rain forests: Banding patterns and FISH of telomeric sequences

Hereditas

Volumn 131, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 15-21

  Pellegrino, Katia Cristina Machado ^a   Rodrigues, Miguel Trefaut ^a   Yonenaga Yassuda, Yatiyo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BRAZIL; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CHROMOSOME BANDING PATTERN; CHROMOSOME NOR; CHROMOSOME REARRANGEMENT; CONSTITUTIVE HETEROCHROMATIN; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; FOREST; KARYOTYPE; LIZARD; MALE; MICROCHROMOSOME; NONHUMAN; PERICENTRIC CHROMOSOME INVERSION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TELOMERE;

AMPHIBIA; ANIMALIA; GYMNOPHTHALMIDAE; LEPOSOMA; LEPOSOMA GUIANENSE; LEPOSOMA OSWALDOI; LEPOSOMA SCINCOIDES; OSWALDOI; REPTILIA; ROBERTSONIA; SQUAMATA;

EID: 0032762027     PISSN: 00180661     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1601-5223.1999.00015.x     Document Type: Article

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