Chromosome study of Anteaters (Myrmecophagideae, Xenarthra) - A preliminary report

Genetics and Molecular Biology

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 391-394

  Pereira Jr , Hélio Rubens Jacintho ^a,b   Jorge, Wilham ^b,c   da Costa, Maria Elvira Loyola Teixeira ^c  

^a SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

^c Fundacão Zoo Botânica de Belo Horizonte   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Anteater; Chromosomes; Myrmecophagidae

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTEATER; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CHROMOSOME NUMBER; CHROMOSOME REARRANGEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIPLOIDY; EDENTATA; FEMALE; GENUS; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; KARYOTYPE; MALE; NONHUMAN; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; X CHROMOSOME; Y CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALIA; CYCLOPES DIDACTYLUS; EDENTATA; MYRMECOPHAGA TRIDACTYLA; MYRMECOPHAGIDAE; TAMANDUA; TAMANDUA MEXICANA; TAMANDUA TETRADACTYLA;

EID: 26944439672     PISSN: 14154757     EISSN: 16784685     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/s1415-47572004000300014     Document Type: Article

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