Karyotypic characterization of ten species of birds

Cytologia

Volumn 70, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 181-194

  Ebied, Abdel M ^a   Hassan, Hamely A ^a   Abu Almaaty, Ali H ^a   Yaseen, Ahmed Essa ^b  

^a SOUTH VALLEY UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^b Suez Canal University   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Birds; Chromosomes; Ideograms; Karyotypes

Indexed keywords

ANAS QUERQUEDULA; ANATIDAE; AVES; CHARADRIIDAE; GELOCHELIDON NILOTICA; HIMANTOPUS HIMANTOPUS; HOPLOPTERUS SPINOSUS; LARIDAE; LARUS GENEI; LOPHURA; NUMIDA MELEAGRIS; NUMIDIDAE; PHALACROCORACIDAE; PHALACROCORAX CARBO; PHASIANIDAE; PLEGADIS FALCINELLUS; PODICIPEDIDAE; TACHYBAPTUS RUFICOLLIS; THRESKIORNITHIDAE;

EID: 23944469352     PISSN: 00114545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1508/cytologia.70.181     Document Type: Article

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