Noninvasive determination of genome size and ploidy level in fishes by flow cytometry: Detection of triploid Poecilia formosa

Cytometry

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 91-95

  Lamatsch, Dunja K ^a   Steinlein, C ^a   Schmid, M ^a   Schartl, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Field method; Fishes; Flow cytometric measurement (FCM); Gynogenesis; Medaka; Nuclear DNA content; Ploidy; Triploidy; Xiphophorus; Zebrafish

Indexed keywords

CELL NUCLEUS DNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA CONTENT; FEMALE; FISH; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENETIC ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PLOIDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STAINING; TRIPLOIDY;

ANIMALIA; DANIO RERIO; LATIPES; ORYZIAS LATIPES; PISCES; POECILIA FORMOSA; POECILIIDAE; TAKIFUGU; TETRAODON FLUVIATILIS; XIPHOPHORUS;

EID: 0033967588     PISSN: 01964763     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0320(20000201)39:2<91::AID-CYTO1>3.0.CO;2-4     Document Type: Article

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