Karyotype analysis and achiasmatic meiosis in pseudoscorpions of the family Chthoniidae (Arachnida: Pseudoscorpiones)

Hereditas

Volumn 140, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 49-60

  Šťáhlavský, František ^a   Král, Jiří ^a  

^a CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACROCENTRIC CHROMOSOME; ARACHNID; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME CHIASM; CHROMOSOME NUMBER; CHTHONIIDAE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIPLOIDY; KARYOTYPING; MEIOSIS; NONHUMAN; PERICENTRIC CHROMOSOME INVERSION; SCORPION; SEX CHROMOSOME; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; X CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALS; ARACHNIDA; CHROMOSOMES; DIPLOIDY; EUROPE; EVOLUTION; KARYOTYPING; MALE; MEIOSIS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; X CHROMOSOME;

ACARI; ACARIFORMES; ARACHNIDA; ARANEAE; CHTHONIIDAE; CHTHONIUS; INSECTA; MUNDOCHTHONIUS; PSEUDOSCORPIONES; SCORPIONES;

EID: 11144357309     PISSN: 00180661     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1601-5223.2004.01783.x     Document Type: Article

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