Cytotaxonomy of rodent species from Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania and Zambia

Belgian Journal of Zoology

Volumn 135, Issue SUPPL.1, 2005, Pages 197-216

  Corti, Marco ^a   Castiglia, Riccardo ^a   Colangelo, Paolo ^a   Capanna, Ernesto ^a   Beolchini, Francesca ^a   Bekele, Afework ^b   Oguge, Nicholas O ^c   Makundi, Rhodes H ^d   Sichilima, Alfred M ^e   Leirs, Herwig ^f,g   Verheyen, Walter ^f   Verhagen, Ron ^f  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b ADDIS ABABA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

^c KENYATTA UNIVERSITY   (Kenya)

^d SOKOINE UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE   (Tanzania)

^e Mutanda Research Station   (Zambia)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^g Danish Pest Infestation Laboratory   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Cytogenetics; East Africa; Rodents; Taxonomy

Indexed keywords

ACOMYS; AETHOMYS; ARVICANTHIS; CRICETOMYINAE; CRICETOMYS; GERBILLINAE; GRAMMOMYS; GRAPHIURUS; LEMNISCOMYS; MASTOMYS; MURINAE; MYOXIDAE; RODENTIA; STENOCEPHALEMYS;

EID: 33746336734     PISSN: 07776276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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