Increases and decreases of whole-arm heterochromatin in specific chromosomes: An extraordinary situation in hybrids of the Mus terricolor complex

Cytogenetic and Genome Research

Volumn 96, Issue 1-4, 2002, Pages 244-249

  Sharma, T ^a   Bardhan, A ^a   Bahadur, M ^a  

^a BANARAS HINDU UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; AUTOSOME; CHROMOSOME ARM; DNA HYBRIDIZATION; FEMALE; GENE SEQUENCE; GERM CELL; HETEROCHROMATIN; HETEROZYGOSITY; HOMOZYGOSITY; HYBRID; KARYOTYPE; LABORATORY; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOMATIC CELL; SOMATIC CELL GENETICS; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHROMOSOME MAP; GENETICS; KARYOTYPING; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION;

ANIMALIA; MUS; MUS TERRICOLOR;

ANIMALS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; HETEROCHROMATIN; KARYOTYPING; MICE; MODELS, GENETIC; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION;

EID: 0036048576     PISSN: 14248581     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000063035     Document Type: Article

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