The behaviour of a multiple sex chromosome system in Dundocoris flavilineatus (Heteroptera: Aradidae: Carventinae) that originated by autosome-sex chromosome fusion

Folia Biologica

Volumn 51, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 23-32

  Jacobs, Dawid H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Aradidae; Chromosome fusion; Cytogenetics; Holocentic chromosomes; Idiogram; Karyotype; Meiosis; Multiple sex chromosome system; Neo X1X2Y

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; ARTICLE; AUTOSOME; CHROMOSOME CHIASM; CHROMOSOME NUMBER; CHROMOSOME STRUCTURE; CYTOGENETICS; DUNDOCORIS FLAVILINEATUS; FOREST; GENE FUSION; HETEROPTERA; KARYOTYPE; MICROPHOTOGRAPHY; NONHUMAN; PROPHASE; SEX CHROMOSOME; Y CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; HETEROPTERA; KARYOTYPING; MALE; MEIOSIS; SEX CHROMOSOMES;

ARADIDAE; DUNDOCORIS NODULICARINUS; HETEROPTERA; INSECTA;

EID: 10744222666     PISSN: 00155497     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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