Karyotype analysis, banding, and fluorescent in situ hybridization in the Scarab beetle Gymnopleurus sturmi McLeay (Coleoptera Scarabaeoidea: Scarabaeidae)

Journal of Heredity

Volumn 91, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 260-264

  Colomba, M S ^a   Vitturi, R ^a   Zunino, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEETLE; CHROMOSOME BANDING PATTERN; CONFERENCE PAPER; DNA POLYMORPHISM; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC ANALYSIS; KARYOTYPE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TELOMERE;

COLEOPTERA; ECHINODERMATA; EUKARYOTA; GYMNOPLEURUS; GYMNOPLEURUS STURMI; INSECTA; PARACENTROTUS LIVIDUS; SCARABAEIDAE; SCARABAEOIDEA;

EID: 0034106546     PISSN: 00221503     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jhered/91.3.260     Document Type: Conference Paper

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