Evidence for chromosome and Pst I satellite DNA family evolutionary stasis in the Bufo viridis group (Amphibia, Anura)

Chromosome Research

Volumn 12, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 671-681

  Odierna, Gaetano ^a   Aprea, Gennaro ^a   Capriglion, Teresa ^a   Castellano, Sergio ^b   Balletto, Emilio ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Anura; Bufo viridis; Chromosomes; Heterochromatin; Satellite DNA

Indexed keywords

SATELLITE DNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BUFO VIRIDIS; CHROMATIN; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CHROMOSOME BANDING PATTERN; CHROMOSOME ISOLATION; CHROMOSOME PAIRING; CHROMOSOME REPLICATION; CHROMOSOME SATELLITE; COMPARATIVE GENOMIC HYBRIDIZATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIPLOIDY; DNA ISOLATION; FEMALE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION (SPECIES); KARYOTYPE; MALE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TELOMERE; TETRAPLOIDY; TOAD; ANIMAL; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYPLOIDY; SOUTHERN BLOTTING;

AMPHIBIA; ANIMALIA; ANURA; BUFO; BUFO BUFO; BUFO DEBILIS; BUFO MAURITANICUS; BUFO REGULARIS; BUFO VIRIDIS; BUFONIDAE; WERNERIA; WOLTERSTORFFINA;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; BUFONIDAE; CYTOGENETIC ANALYSIS; DNA, SATELLITE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYPLOIDY;

EID: 21644463371     PISSN: 09673849     EISSN: 15736849     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:CHRO.0000045746.59805.58     Document Type: Article

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