Cytotaxonomic studies on Chilean galaxiid fishes. The karyotypes, C-bands, Ag-NORs and hybrids of Brachygalaxias gothei and B. bullocki (Osteichthyes: Galaxiidae)

Cytologia

Volumn 64, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 379-385

  Cuevas, C C ^a   Campos, H H ^c   Busse, K ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUSTRAL DE CHILE   (Chile)

^b Forschunginst/Mus Alexander K   (Germany)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Chile; Fish cytogenetics; Galaxiids; Hybrids

Indexed keywords

C BANDING; CHROMOSOME NOR; CYTOLOGY; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; HETEROCHROMATIN; HYBRID; INFERTILITY; KARYOTYPE; TAXONOMY;

BRACHYGALAXIAS BULLOCKI; BRACHYGALAXIAS GOTHEI;

EID: 0033402404     PISSN: 00114545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1508/cytologia.64.379     Document Type: Article

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