Structural and functional evidence that a B chromosome in the characid fish Astyanax scabripinnis is an isochromosome

Heredity

Volumn 85, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 1-9

  Mestriner, Carlos A ^a   Galetti Jr , Pedro M ^a   Valentini, Sandro R ^c   Ruiz, Itamar R G ^b   Abel, Luciano D S ^a   Moreira Filho, Orlando ^a   Camacho, Juan P M ^d  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO CARLOS   (Brazil)

^b SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

^c INSTITUTO BUTANTAN   (Brazil)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Astyanax scabripinnis; B chromosomes; FISH; Heterochromatin; Isochromosome; Satellite DNA

Indexed keywords

AUTOSOME; C BANDING; CHROMOSOMAL LOCALIZATION; CLONE; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; DNA FRAGMENT; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; HETEROCHROMATIN; ISOCHROMOSOME; REPETITIVE DNA; SYNAPTONEMAL COMPLEX;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CHROMOSOME BANDING; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, SATELLITE; ELECTROPHORESIS, AGAR GEL; FEMALE; FISHES; HETEROCHROMATIN; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; ISOCHROMOSOMES; KARYOTYPING; MALE; MEIOSIS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SEX FACTORS;

ASTYANAX SCABRIPINNIS; CHARACIDAE;

EID: 0033845413     PISSN: 0018067X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2540.2000.00702.x     Document Type: Article

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