Sex-autosome translocations: Meiotic behaviour suggests an inactivation block with permanence of autosomal gene activity in Phyllostomid bats

Caryologia

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 267-277

  Noronha, Renata C Rodrigues ^a   Nagamachi, Cleusa Y ^a   Pieczarka, Julio C ^a   De Souza Barros, Regina M ^a   Marques Aguiar, Suely ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PARÁ   (Brazil)

^b MUSEU PARAENSE EMÍLIO GOELDI   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Chromosome; Fertility; Genic activity; Phyllostomidae; Sex vesicle; Translocations

Indexed keywords

EID: 0040623243     PISSN: 00087114     EISSN: 21655391     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00087114.2001.10589235     Document Type: Article

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