Heterochromatin differentiation shows the pathways of karyotypic evolution in Israeli mole rats (Spalax, Spalacidae, Rodentia)

Cytogenetic and Genome Research

Volumn 111, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 159-165

  Ivanitskaya, E ^a   Belyayev, A ^a   Nevo, E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ACROCENTRIC CHROMOSOME; ARTICLE; CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOME BAND; CHROMOSOME PAIRING; CHROMOSOME REARRANGEMENT; COMPARATIVE GENOMIC HYBRIDIZATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; FLUOROCHROME STAINING; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HETEROCHROMATIN; ISRAEL; KARYOTYPE EVOLUTION; MALE; MOLE RAT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; ROBERTSONIAN CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION; RODENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SEX CHROMOSOME; SPECIES COMPARISON; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; TELOMERE;

ANIMALS; CHROMOSOME BANDING; DNA; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HAPLOIDY; HETEROCHROMATIN; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; ISRAEL; KARYOTYPING; MOLE RATS;

ROBERTSONIA; RODENTIA; SPALACINAE; SPALAX; SPALAX GALILI;

EID: 23844444122     PISSN: 14248581     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000086386     Document Type: Article

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