Developmental capacity and chromosome number in the offspring of artificially produced autotetraploids of Rana nigromaculata

Zoological Science

Volumn 19, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 877-883

  Kondo, Yasuyuki ^a  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Amphibia; Chromosome number; Developmental capacity; Nuclear transplantation; Polyploid

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION; CELL NUCLEUS TRANSPLANTATION; CHROMOSOME; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; CYTOLOGY; FEMALE; FROG; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; INFERTILITY THERAPY; KARYOTYPING; LARVA; MALE; OOCYTE; PLOIDY; SPERMATOGENESIS;

ANIMALS; CHROMOSOMES; FEMALE; INSEMINATION, ARTIFICIAL; KARYOTYPING; LARVA; MALE; NUCLEAR TRANSFER TECHNIQUES; OVUM; PLOIDIES; RANIDAE; REPRODUCTIVE TECHNIQUES, ASSISTED; SPERMATOGENESIS;

AMPHIBIA; ANIMALIA; ANURA; RANA NIGROMACULATA; REPTILIA;

EID: 0036703128     PISSN: 02890003     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2108/zsj.19.877     Document Type: Article

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