Comparative cytogenetics of three species of Dichotomius (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae)

Genetics and Molecular Biology

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 276-280

  da Silva, Guilherme Messias ^a   Bione, Edgar Guimarães ^b   Cabral de Mello, Diogo Cavalcanti ^a,c   de Moura, Rita de Cássia ^c   Simões, Zilá Luz Paulino ^b   de Souza, Maria José ^a  

^a DEPARTAMENTO DE MICOLOGIA   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PERNAMBUCO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Chromosome rearrangements; FISH; Heterochromatin; Karyotype; NORs

Indexed keywords

RNA 28S;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOSOME; C BANDING; CHROMOSOMAL LOCALIZATION; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CHROMOSOME INVERSION; CHROMOSOME NOR; COLEOPTERA; CONSTITUTIVE HETEROCHROMATIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DICHOTOMIUS NISUS; DICHOTOMIUS SEMISQUAMOSUS; DICHOTOMIUS SERICEUS; DNA PROBE; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; KARYOTYPE; MALE; NONHUMAN; SEX DETERMINATION; SPECIES COMPARISON;

COLEOPTERA; DICHOTOMIUS; SCARABAEIDAE;

EID: 66649131056     PISSN: 14154757     EISSN: 16784685     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/s1415-47572009005000040     Document Type: Article

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