Comparative chromosome analysis (R- and C-bands) of two South African murid species, Lemniscomys rosalia and Rhabdomys pumilio (Rodentia, Murinae)

Cytogenetics and Cell Genetics

Volumn 87, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 69-74

  Ducroz, J F ^a   Granjon, L ^a   Lombard, M ^b   Volobouev, Vitaly ^a,b  

^a MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

^b INSTITUT CURIE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CHROMOSOME BANDING PATTERN; CHROMOSOME REARRANGEMENT; CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CYTOGENETICS; DIPLOIDY; FEMALE; KARYOTYPE; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PERICENTRIC CHROMOSOME INVERSION; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROBERTSONIAN CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION; RODENT; SOUTH AFRICA; SPECIES;

ANIMALS; CHROMOSOME BANDING; CHROMOSOMES; DIPLOIDY; FEMALE; HETEROCHROMATIN; INVERSION, CHROMOSOME; KARYOTYPING; MALE; MURIDAE; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SOUTH AFRICA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TRANSLOCATION, GENETIC;

ANIMALIA; LEMNISCOMYS ROSALIA; MURIDAE; MURINAE; RHABDOMYS PUMILIO; ROBERTSONIA; RODENTIA;

EID: 0033396512     PISSN: 03010171     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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