Chromosomal and molecular characterization of Aethomys kaiseri from Zambia and Aethomys chrysophilus from Tanzania (Rodentia, Muridae)

Hereditas

Volumn 139, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 81-89

  Castiglia, Riccardo ^a   Corti, Marco ^a   Colangelo, Paolo ^a   Annesi, Flavia ^a   Capanna, Ernesto ^a   Verheyen, Walter ^b   Sichilima, Alfred Matafwali ^c   Makundi, Rhodes ^d  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^c Mutanda Research Station   (Zambia)

^d SOKOINE UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE   (Tanzania)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME B;

AETHOMYS CHRYSOPHILUS; AETHOMYS KAISERI; AETHOMYS NAMAQUENSIS; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUTOSOME; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CHROMOSOME BAND; CHROMOSOME C BAND; CHROMOSOME G BAND; CHROMOSOME SIZE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOGENETICS; FEMALE; GENE SEQUENCE; MALE; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARAPHYLY; PHYLOGENY; RODENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SOUTH AFRICA; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; TANZANIA; X CHROMOSOME; Y CHROMOSOME; ZAMBIA;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME BANDING; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CYTOCHROMES B; DNA PRIMERS; FEMALE; KARYOTYPING; MALE; MURIDAE; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

AETHOMYS; AETHOMYS CHRYSOPHILUS; AETHOMYS KAISERI; AETHOMYS NAMAQUENSIS; ANIMALIA; MURIDAE; MYA; RODENTIA;

EID: 1042269566     PISSN: 00180661     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1601-5223.2003.01763.x     Document Type: Article

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