Evidence for male XO sex-chromosome system in Pentodon bidens punctatum (Coleoptera Scarabaeoidea: Scarabaeidae) with X-linked 18S-28S rDNA clusters

Genes and Genetic Systems

Volumn 78, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 427-432

  Vitturi, Roberto ^a   Colomba, Mariastella ^b   Volpe, Nicola ^a   Lannino, Antonella ^a   Zunino, Mario ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF URBINO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Chromosomes; Coleoptera; FISH; Ribosomal DNA; Scarabaeoidea; XO sex system

Indexed keywords

DNA 18S; DNA 28S; RIBOSOME DNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BEETLE; CHROMOSOMAL LOCALIZATION; CHROMOSOME MAP; CHROMOSOME NOR; COLEOPTERA; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GIEMSA STAIN; HETEROCHROMATIN; INVERTEBRATE; KARYOTYPE; KARYOTYPE 45,X; METAPHASE; NONHUMAN; SEX CHROMOSOME; SEX DETERMINATION; SPERMATOCYTE; TAXONOMY; X CHROMOSOME; X CHROMOSOME LINKAGE;

ANIMALS; BEETLES; CHROMOSOME BANDING; FEMALE; HETEROCHROMATIN; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; KARYOTYPING; MALE; SEX CHROMOSOMES;

BIDENS; COLEOPTERA; INVERTEBRATA; SCARABAEIDAE; SCARABAEOIDEA;

EID: 1542378138     PISSN: 13417568     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1266/ggs.78.427     Document Type: Article

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