Karyotype relationships among species of subfamily tetragonopterinae (Pisces, Characidae): Cytotaxonomy and evolution aspects

Cytologia

Volumn 67, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 329-336

  De Brito Portela Castro, Ana Luiza ^a   Júlio Júnior, Horácio Ferreira ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF MARINGÁ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Chromosome evolution; Cytotaxonomy; Hemigrammus; Moenkhausia; Tetragonopterinae

Indexed keywords

CHARACIDAE; HEMIGRAMMUS; HEMIGRAMMUS MARGINATUS; MOENKHAUSIA; MOENKHAUSIA INTERMEDIA; MOENKHAUSIA SANCTAEFILOMENAE; PISCES; TETRAGONOPTERINAE;

EID: 0036711219     PISSN: 00114545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1508/cytologia.67.329     Document Type: Article

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