Cytogenetic analysis of Epinephelus marginatus (Pisces: Serranidae), with the chromosome localization of the 18S and 5S rRNA genes and of the (TTAGGG)(n) telomeric sequence

Marine Biology

Volumn 137, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 47-51

  Sola, L ^a   De Innocentiis, S ^a   Gornung, E ^a   Papalia, S ^a   Rossi, A R ^a   Marino, G ^b   De Marco, P ^c   Cataudella, S ^c  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b ICRAM   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOMAL LOCALIZATION; CHROMOSOME NOR; FLUORESCENCE; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; HETEROCHROMATIN; KARYOTYPE; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; RIBOSOMAL DNA; RIBOSOMAL RNA; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TELOMERE;

EPINEPHELUS MARGINATUS;

EID: 0033855426     PISSN: 00253162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002270000334     Document Type: Article

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