A GC-rich satellite DNA and karyology of the bivalve mollusk Donax trunculus: A dominance of GC-rich heterochromatin

Cytogenetic and Genome Research

Volumn 124, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 63-71

  Petrovic V ^a   Perez Garcia C ^b   Pasantes, J J ^b   Atovic E ^a   Prats, E ^c   Plohl, M ^a  

^a RUDER BO KOVI INSTITUTE   (Croatia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIGO   (Spain)

^c INSTITUT DE BIOLOGIA MOLECULAR DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHROMOMYCIN A3; REPETITIVE DNA; RIBOSOME DNA; RIBOSOME DNA 28S; SATELLITE DNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; C BANDING; CHROMOSOMAL LOCALIZATION; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CHROMOSOME PAIRING; CHROMOSOME POSITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CPG ISLAND; DONAX TRUNCULUS; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; FLUOROCHROME STAINING; GC RICH SEQUENCE; GENE INTERACTION; HETEROCHROMATIN; KARYOTYPE; METHYLATION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLLUSC; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TELOMERE;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BIVALVIA; CHROMOMYCIN A3; CHROMOSOME BANDING; CHROMOSOMES; CPG ISLANDS; DNA; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; DNA, SATELLITE; FLUORESCENT DYES; GC RICH SEQUENCE; HETEROCHROMATIN; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; INDOLES; KARYOTYPING; METAPHASE; METHYLATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLLUSCA; NUCLEOLUS ORGANIZER REGION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

BIVALVIA; DONAX TRUNCULUS;

EID: 65349182469     PISSN: 14248581     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000200089     Document Type: Article

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