The dicentric nature of the metacentric B chromosome of Metaleptea brevicornis adspersa (Acridinae, Acrididae)

Heredity

Volumn 84, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 639-646

  Grieco, Mariano L ^a   Bidau, Claudio J ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE MISIONES   (Argentina)

^b Facultad de Ciencias Naturales e Instituto M Lillo   (Argentina)

Author keywords

B chromosome; Dicentric chromosome; Isochromosome; Kinetochore; Synaptonemal complex

Indexed keywords

ANAPHASE; AUTOSOME; CELL NUCLEUS; CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOME STRUCTURE; GENE SEGREGATION; MEIOSIS; METAPHASE; PACHYTENE; SYNAPTONEMAL COMPLEX; TELOPHASE;

ANIMALS; CHROMOSOMES; FEMALE; GRASSHOPPERS; KARYOTYPING; MALE; MEIOSIS; SYNAPTONEMAL COMPLEX;

ACRIDIDAE; ACRIDINAE; INSECTA; METALEPTEA; METALEPTEA BREVICORNIS;

EID: 0033852107     PISSN: 0018067X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2540.2000.00688.x     Document Type: Article

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