The effect of multiple simple Robertsonian heterozygosity on chromosome pairing and fertility of wild-stock house mice (Mus musculus domesticus)

Cytogenetic and Genome Research

Volumn 96, Issue 1-4, 2002, Pages 276-286

  Wallace, B M N ^a   Searle, J B ^b   Everett, C A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^c NONE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANAPHASE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL COUNT; CELL DEATH; CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CHROMOSOME PAIRING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FEMALE; FERTILITY; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GERM CELL; HETEROZYGOSITY; KARYOTYPING; MALE; MEIOSIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PACHYTENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHASE; SPERMATOCYTE; WILD TYPE; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BODY CONSTITUTION; BODY WEIGHT; CHROMOSOME MAP; CHROMOSOME PAINTING; GENETICS; HETEROZYGOTE; HISTOLOGY; MALE GENITAL SYSTEM; METHODOLOGY; UNITED KINGDOM;

MUS; MUS MUSCULUS; MUS MUSCULUS DOMESTICUS; MUSCULUS; ROBERTSONIA;

ANIMALS; BODY CONSTITUTION; BODY WEIGHT; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOME PAINTING; FEMALE; FERTILITY; GENITALIA, MALE; HETEROZYGOTE; MALE; MICE; MODELS, GENETIC; SCOTLAND;

EID: 0036045195     PISSN: 14248581     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000063054     Document Type: Article

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