Morphological patterns of the heteropycnotic chromatin and nucleolar material in meiosis and spermiogenesis of some Pentatomidae (Heteroptera)

Genetics and Molecular Biology

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 686-691

  de Souza, Hederson Vinicius ^a   Castanhole, Márcia Maria Urbanin ^a   Bicudo, Hermione Elly Melara de Campos ^a   Costa, Luiz Antônio Alves ^b   Itoyama, Mary Massumi ^a  

^a SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Late chromosome migration; Multilobed testes; Nucleolus semi persistence

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; CHROMOSOME NOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HETEROPTERA; KARYOTYPE; MALE; MEIOSIS; MIGRATION; MORMIDEA V LUTEUM; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; OEBALUS POECILUS; OEBALUS YPSILONGRISEUS; SEX CHROMOSOME; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS;

HETEROPTERA; MORMIDEA; OEBALUS; OEBALUS YPSILONGRISEUS; PENTATOMIDAE; POECILUS;

EID: 55449121339     PISSN: 14154757     EISSN: 16784685     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/s1415-47572008000400014     Document Type: Article

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