Nature and distribution of constitutive heterochromatin and NOR location in the grasshopper Phaeoparia megacephala (Romaleidae: Orthoptera)

Cytobios

Volumn 2000, Issue 403, 2000, Pages 111-119

  Pereira, Luciana Guedes ^a   De Souza, Maria José ^b  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^b DEPARTAMENTO DE MICOLOGIA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

C banding; Constitutive heterochromatin; Fluorochrome staining; NOR; Phaeoparia megacephala

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME BANDING PATTERN; CHROMOSOME NOR; FEMALE; GENETICS; GRASSHOPPER; HETEROCHROMATIN; KARYOTYPING; MALE; METHODOLOGY; SILVER STAINING;

ANIMALS; CHROMOSOME BANDING; FEMALE; GRASSHOPPERS; HETEROCHROMATIN; KARYOTYPING; MALE; NUCLEOLUS ORGANIZER REGION; SILVER STAINING;

EID: 0034567020     PISSN: 00114529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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