An examination of intergenomic exchanges in A. laterale-dependent unisexual salamanders in the genus Ambystoma

Cytogenetic and Genome Research

Volumn 124, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 44-50

  Bi, K ^a   Bogart, J P ^a   Fu, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMBYSTOMA; AMBYSTOMA JEFFERSONIANUM; AMBYSTOMA LATERALE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE FREQUENCY; GENOMIC IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; NONHUMAN; PARTHENOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALAMANDER; SPERM DONOR; SURVIVAL TIME;

AMBYSTOMA; ANIMALS; CHROMOSOMES; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT DYES; GENOME; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LARVA; MALE; MEIOSIS; METAPHASE; MODELS, GENETIC; PARTHENOGENESIS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SEX; SPERMATOZOA;

AMBYSTOMA; AMBYSTOMA JEFFERSONIANUM; AMBYSTOMA LATERALE; AMBYSTOMA TEXANUM; AMBYSTOMA TIGRINUM; ORA; SALAMANDROIDEA;

EID: 65349174564     PISSN: 14248581     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000200087     Document Type: Article

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