X-Y-autosome translocation, chromosome compaction, NOR expression and heterochromatin insulation in the Scarabaeid beetle Dynastes hercules hercules

Cytogenetic and Genome Research

Volumn 116, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 305-310

  Dutrillaux, A M ^a   Mercier, J ^a   Dutrillaux, B ^a  

^a MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEETLE; CHROMOSOME NOR; CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION; COLEOPTERA; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE INACTIVATION; HETEROCHROMATIN; KARYOTYPE 46,XY; MALE; MEIOSIS; MITOSIS; NONHUMAN; PACHYTENE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX CHROMOSOME; STAINING;

ANIMALS; BEETLES; CELL NUCLEUS; CHROMOSOME BANDING; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; FEMALE; HETEROCHROMATIN; INTERPHASE; KARYOTYPING; MALE; NUCLEOLUS ORGANIZER REGION; PACHYTENE STAGE; PROMETAPHASE; SPERMATOCYTES; TRANSLOCATION, GENETIC; X CHROMOSOME; Y CHROMOSOME;

COLEOPTERA; DYNASTES; MAMMALIA; SCARABAEIDAE; SYNAPSIS;

EID: 34247095654     PISSN: 14248581     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000100415     Document Type: Article

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