Karyotype evolution in South American subterranean rodents Ctenomys magellanicus (rodentia: Octodontidae): Chromosome rearrangements and (TTAGGG)n telomeric sequence localization in 2n = 34 and 2n = 36 chromosomal forms

Hereditas

Volumn 139, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 13-17

  Lizarralde, Marta ^a   Bolzan, Alejandro ^b   Bianchi, Martha ^b  

^a CENTRO AUSTRAL DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTÍFICAS CADIC CONICET   (Argentina)

^b Instituto Multidisciplinario de Biologia Celular   (Argentina)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARGENTINA; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOMAL LOCALIZATION; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CHROMOSOME BANDING PATTERN; CHROMOSOME G BAND; CHROMOSOME REARRANGEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE PROBE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; KARYOTYPE EVOLUTION; METAPHASE CHROMOSOME; NONHUMAN; RAT; SOUTH AMERICAN RODENTS; STAINING; TELOMERE;

ANIMALS; CHROMOSOME BANDING; CHROMOSOMES; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; KARYOTYPING; RATS; RODENTIA; SOUTH AMERICA; TELOMERE;

CTENOMYS; CTENOMYS MAGELLANICUS; MAMMALIA; OCTODONTIDAE; RODENTIA;

EID: 0348010666     PISSN: 00180661     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1601-5223.2003.01696.x     Document Type: Article

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