A tetraploid Amazon molly, Poecilia formosa

Journal of Heredity

Volumn 99, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 223-226

  Lampert, Kathrin P ^a,c   Lamatsch, Dunja K ^a,b   Fischer, Petra ^a   Schartl, Manfred ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^c RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA CONTENT; FERTILIZATION; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FRESHWATER FISH; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HAPLOIDY; NONHUMAN; POECILIA FORMOSA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TETRAPLOIDY;

ANIMALS; FLOW CYTOMETRY; POECILIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYPLOIDY; SOUTH AMERICA;

POECILIA FORMOSA;

EID: 41149119885     PISSN: 00221503     EISSN: 14657333     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jhered/esm102     Document Type: Article

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