Distribution of (TTAGGG)n telomeric sequences in karyotypes of the Xenopus species complex

Cytogenetic and Genome Research

Volumn 122, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 396-400

  Nanda, I ^a   Fugate, M ^a   Steinlein, C ^a   Schmid, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

REPETITIVE DNA; RIBOSOME RNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; C BANDING; CHROMOSOME; CHROMOSOME PAIRING; CONSTITUTIVE HETEROCHROMATIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE CLUSTER; GENE LOCATION; GENETIC DIFFERENCE; KARYOTYPE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA GENE; SILURANA TROPICALIS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TELOMERE; TOAD; XENOPUS; XENOPUS BOREALIS; XENOPUS CLIVII; XENOPUS MUELLERI;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME BANDING; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; KARYOTYPING; METAPHASE; OLIGODEOXYRIBONUCLEOTIDES; POLYPLOIDY; TELOMERE; XENOPUS; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

VERTEBRATA; XENOPUS BOREALIS; XENOPUS CLIVII; XENOPUS MUELLERI; XENOPUS TROPICALIS;

EID: 59649110511     PISSN: 14248581     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000167828     Document Type: Article

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