Sex-ratio meiotic drive in Drosophila simulans is related to equational nondisjunction of the Y chromosome

Genetics

Volumn 154, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 229-236

  Cazemajor, Michel ^a   Joly, Dominique ^b   Montchamp Moreau, Catherine ^a,b  

^a INSTITUT JACQUES MONOD   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DROSOPHILA SIMULANS; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MEIOSIS; NONDISJUNCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX RATIO; SPERMATID; SPERMATOGENESIS; Y CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALS; DROSOPHILA; FEMALE; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; KARYOTYPING; MALE; MEIOSIS; NONDISJUNCTION, GENETIC; SEX RATIO; Y CHROMOSOME;

DROSOPHILA SIMULANS;

EID: 0033977729     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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