Karyotypic features of eyprepocnemidinae grasshoppers from Russia and Central Asia with reference to the B chromosomes in Eyprepocnemis plorans (Charp.)

Folia Biologica

Volumn 47, Issue 3-4, 1999, Pages 97-104

  Bugrov, Alexander ^a,b   WarchaŁowska Śliwa, Elzbieta ^c   Vysotskaya, Ludmila ^b  

^a ENERGY SYSTEMS INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^b NOVOSIBIRSK STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^c INSTITUTE OF SYSTEMATICS AND EVOLUTION OF ANIMALS   (Poland)

Author keywords

B chromosome; C banding; Eyprepocnemidinae; Grasshoppers; Karyotype; Meiosis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME BANDING PATTERN; GRASSHOPPER; KARYOTYPE; MEIOSIS; NONHUMAN; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SEX DETERMINATION; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION;

EYPREPOCNEMIS; EYPREPOCNEMIS PLORANS; EYPREPOCNEMIS UNICOLOR; SHIRAKIACRIS SHIRAKII; THISOICETRINUS PTEROSTICHUS;

EID: 0343048388     PISSN: 00155497     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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