Chromosomal polymorphisms due to supernumerary chromosomes and pericentric inversions in the eyelidless microteiid lizard Nothobachia ablephara (Squamata, Gymnophthalmidae)

Chromosome Research

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 247-254

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Chromosomal polymorphisms; Microteiid lizard; Nothobachia; Pericentric inversion; Supernumerary

Indexed keywords

ACROCENTRIC CHROMOSOME; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME C BAND; CHROMOSOME POLYMORPHISM; CHROMOSOME R BAND; CYTOGENETICS; FEMALE; FIBROBLAST CULTURE; HUMAN CELL; LIZARD; MALE; NONHUMAN; PERICENTRIC CHROMOSOME INVERSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DETERMINATION; SILVER STAINING; SUPERNUMERARY CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALS; CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; FEMALE; INVERSION, CHROMOSOME; KARYOTYPING; LIZARDS; MALE; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC;

GYMNOPHTHALMIDAE; NOTHOBACHIA; NOTHOBACHIA ABLEPHARA; SQUAMATA;

EID: 0032838678     PISSN: 09673849     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1009218628942     Document Type: Article

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