Are unpaired chromosomes spermicidal?: A maximum-likelihood analysis of segregation and meiotic drive in Drosophila melanogaster males deficient for the ribosomal-DNA

Genetics

Volumn 151, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 251-262

  Robbins, Leonard G ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME DNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL SURVIVAL; CHROMATIN; CHROMOSOME PAIRING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; LETHALITY; MALE; NONDISJUNCTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPERMATOGENESIS;

ANIMALS; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MALE; MEIOSIS; MODELS, GENETIC; NONDISJUNCTION, GENETIC; SPERMATOZOA; Y CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALIA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; HEXAPODA; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 0032894950     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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