The giant B chromosome of the cyprinid fish Alburnus alburnus harbours a retrotransposon-derived repetitive DNA sequence

Chromosome Research

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 23-35

  Ziegler, C G ^a   Lamatsch, D K ^a   Steinlein, C ^a   Engel, W ^b   Schartl, M ^a   Schmid, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

AFLP; Alburnus alburnus; B chromosome; Fluorescence; In situ hybridization; Retrotransposon

Indexed keywords

REPETITIVE DNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOSOME; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CYPRINIFORMES; DNA SEQUENCE; DROSOPHILA; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; FISH; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MEIOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROPOSON; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CHROMOSOMES; CYPRINIDAE; DNA; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; RETROELEMENTS;

ALBURNUS; ALBURNUS ALBURNUS; ANIMALIA; CYPRINIDAE; CYPRINIFORMES; ORYZIAS; ORYZIAS LATIPES; RUTILUS; RUTILUS RUTILUS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0037219465     PISSN: 09673849     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1022053931308     Document Type: Article

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