Isolation and characterization of two families of satellite DNA with repetitive units of 135 bp and 2.5 kb in the ant Monomorium subopacum (Hymenoptera, Formicidae)

Cytogenetic and Genome Research

Volumn 105, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 83-92

  Lorite, P ^a   Carrillo, J A ^a   Aguilar, J A ^a   Palomeque, T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JAÉN   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA; REPETITIVE DNA; SATELLITE DNA;

ANT; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE GENE MAPPING; CYTOGENETICS; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA HYBRIDIZATION; DNA ISOLATION; ELECTROPHORETIC MOBILITY; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HYMENOPTERA; INSECT GENETICS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPECIES COMPARISON; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; ANTS; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA; DNA RESTRICTION ENZYMES; DNA, SATELLITE; KARYOTYPING; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

FORMICIDAE; HEXAPODA; HYMENOPTERA; MONOMORIUM; MONOMORIUM SUBOPACUM;

EID: 2442628469     PISSN: 14248581     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000078013     Document Type: Article

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