Evolution of the karyotype and sex chromosome systems in basal clades of araneomorph spiders (Araneae: Araneomorphae)

Chromosome Research

Volumn 14, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 859-880

  Král, Jiří ^a   Musilová, Jana ^a   Št'áhlavský, František ^a   Řezáč, Milan ^a   Akan, Zübeyde ^b   Edwards, Robert L ^c   Coyle, Frederick A ^d   Almerje, Carles Ribera ^e  

^a CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^b GAZIANTEP UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c Box 505 ^*  (United States)

^d WESTERN CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Araneae; Diffuse stage; Holocentric; Karyotype evolution; Meiosis; Sex chromosomes; Spiders

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOMAL LOCALIZATION; CHROMOSOME NOR; CHROMOSOME PAIRING; CHROMOSOME STRUCTURE; CLADISTICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOGENETICS; DRYMUSIDAE; FAMILIA; FILISTATIDAE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HYPOCHILIDAE; HYPOTHESIS; INSECT GENETICS; KARYOTYPE; MEIOSIS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MONOPHYLY; NONHUMAN; PHOLCIDAE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHASE; SEX CHROMOSOME; SEX DIFFERENCE; SICARIIDAE; SPIDER; X CHROMOSOME; Y CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALS; CHROMOSOMES; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; KARYOTYPING; MALE; MEIOSIS; METAPHASE; SEX CHROMOSOMES; SPIDERS;

ARANEAE; ARANEOMORPHAE; DIGUETIDAE; DYSDEROIDEA; FILISTATIDAE; HYPOCHILIDAE; PHOLCIDAE; SICARIIDAE;

EID: 33846451386     PISSN: 09673849     EISSN: 15736849     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10577-006-1095-9     Document Type: Article

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