Chromosomal polymorphisms due to heterochromatin growth and pericentric inversions in white-bellied rat, Niviventer confucianus, from China

Hereditas

Volumn 138, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 59-64

  Wang, Jin Xing ^a   Zhao, Xiao Fan ^a   Koh, Hung Sun ^b   Deng, Yi ^a   Qi, Hong Ying ^a  

^a SHANDONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Chungbuk National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUTOSOME; CHINA; CHROMOSOME BANDING PATTERN; CHROMOSOME G BAND; CHROMOSOME POLYMORPHISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOGENETICS; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION (SPECIES); HETEROCHROMATIN; KARYOTYPE EVOLUTION; KARYOTYPING; NONHUMAN; PERICENTRIC CHROMOSOME INVERSION; RAT; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION;

ANIMALS; CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; CHROMOSOME BANDING; CHROMOSOMES; EVOLUTION; HETEROCHROMATIN; INVERSION, CHROMOSOME; KARYOTYPING; MURIDAE; NUCLEOLUS ORGANIZER REGION; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; RATS; SEX CHROMOSOMES; TELOMERE; VARIATION (GENETICS);

ANIMALIA; NIVIVENTER; NIVIVENTER CONFUCIANUS; NIVIVENTER NIVIVENTER; RODENTIA;

EID: 0038380322     PISSN: 00180661     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1601-5223.2003.01686.x     Document Type: Article

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