NOR regions of polychaete worms of the genus Ophryotrocha studied by chromosome banding techniques and FISH

Journal of Heredity

Volumn 91, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 18-23

  Vitturi, Roberto ^a,d   Ramella, L ^b   Colomba, M S ^a   Caputo, V ^c   Sella, G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITÀ POLITECNICA DELLE MARCHE   (Italy)

^d Dipartimento di Biologia Animale   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOMAL LOCALIZATION; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CHROMOSOME BANDING PATTERN; CHROMOSOME NOR; CHROMOSOME PAIRING; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME; HETEROCHROMATIN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

DIADEMA; DORVILLEIDAE; INVERTEBRATA; OPHRYOTROCHA; OPHRYOTROCHA COSTIOWI; OPHRYOTROCHA DIADEMA; OPHRYOTROCHA GRACILIS; OPHRYOTROCHA HARTMANNI; OPHRYOTROCHA NOTOGLANDULATA; POLYCHAETA;

EID: 0033980125     PISSN: 00221503     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jhered/91.1.18     Document Type: Article

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