First evidence of achiasmatic male meiosis in the water bears Richtersius coronifer and Macrobiotus richtersi (Eutardigrada, Macrobiotidae)

Hereditas

Volumn 139, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 116-120

  Altiero, Tiziana ^a   Rebecchi, Lorena ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4',6 DIAMIDINO 2 PHENYLINDOLE;

ARTICLE; BEAR; BISEXUALITY; C BANDING; CHROMOSOME; CHROMOSOME NUMBER; DIPLOIDY; FEMALE; MALE; MEIOSIS; METAZOON; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; PROPHASE;

ANIMALS; KARYOTYPING; MALE; MEIOSIS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EUTARDIGRADA; MACROBIOTIDAE; MACROBIOTUS; MACROBIOTUS RICHTERSI; METAZOA; RICHTERSIUS CORONIFER; TARDIGRADA;

EID: 1042304311     PISSN: 00180661     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1601-5223.2003.01719.x     Document Type: Article

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