Karyotype, C-and fluorescence banding pattern, NOR location and FISH study of five Scarabaeidae (Coleoptera) species

Genetics and Molecular Biology

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 376-381

  Bione, Edgar ^a   de Moura, Rita de Cássia ^a,b   de Carvalho, Reginaldo ^a   de Souza, Maria José ^a  

^a DEPARTAMENTO DE MICOLOGIA   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PERNAMBUCO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Constitutive heterochromatin; Karyotype; NORs; rDNA sequences

Indexed keywords

4',6 DIAMIDINO 2 PHENYLINDOLE; RIBOSOME DNA; SILVER NITRATE;

ARTICLE; AUTOSOME; C BANDING; CHROMOSOMAL LOCALIZATION; CHROMOSOME BIVALENT; CHROMOSOME NOR; CHROMOSOME SIZE; COLEOPTERA; CONSTITUTIVE HETEROCHROMATIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; FLUOROCHROME STAINING; INSECT GENETICS; INTRASPECIFIC VARIATION; KARYOTYPING; MALE; MEIOSIS; NONHUMAN; SILVER STAINING; SPECIES COMPARISON; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; X CHROMOSOME;

COLEOPTERA; DYNASTINAE; EBENUS; INSECTA; MACRASPIS FESTIVA; RUTELINAE; SCARABAEIDAE; STRATEGUS;

EID: 30544443474     PISSN: 14154757     EISSN: 16784685     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S1415-47572005000300006     Document Type: Article

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