Nucleolus size variation during meiosis and NOR activity of a B chromosome in the grasshopper Eyprepocnemis plorans

Chromosome Research

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 755-765

  Teruel, María ^a   Cabrero, Josefa ^a   Perfectti, Francisco ^a   Camacho, Juan Pedro M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

Author keywords

B chromosomes; Eyprepocnemis plorans; Meiosis; Nucleolus; rRNA

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOSOME; CELL ACTIVITY; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL SIZE; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CHROMOSOME NOR; ERYPREPOCNEMIS PLORANS; GRASSHOPPER; INSECT GENETICS; MIOSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOLUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHASE;

ANIMALS; CELL CYCLE; CELL NUCLEOLUS; CHROMOSOMES; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; GENETIC TECHNIQUES; GRASSHOPPERS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; MALE; MEIOSIS; MODELS, GENETIC; NUCLEOLUS ORGANIZER REGION; SILVER STAINING; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EYPREPOCNEMIS PLORANS;

EID: 34548704083     PISSN: 09673849     EISSN: 15736849     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10577-007-1159-5     Document Type: Article

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