Karyotype analysis of the Russian wheat aphid, Diuraphis noxia (Kurdjumov) (Hemiptera: Aphididae) reveals a large X chromosome with rRNA and histone gene families

Genetica

Volumn 139, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 281-289

  Novotná, Jana ^a,b   Havelka, Jan ^b   Starý, Petr ^b   Koutecký, Petr ^a   Vítková, Magda ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH BOHEMIA   (Czech Republic)

^b INSTITUTE OF ENTOMOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Diuraphis noxia; Genome size; Histone gene; Karyotype; rDNA; Telomeres

Indexed keywords

HISTONE; RIBOSOME DNA; RIBOSOME RNA;

ANIMAL; APHID; ARTICLE; DNA PROBE; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENETICS; GENOME; INSECT CHROMOSOME; KARYOTYPING; MALE; METABOLISM; SOUTHERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; APHIDS; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CHROMOSOMES, INSECT; DNA PROBES; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; FEMALE; GENOME, INSECT; HISTONES; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; KARYOTYPING; MALE; RNA, RIBOSOMAL;

ANIMALIA; APHIDIDAE; ARTHROPODA; DIURAPHIS NOXIA; HEMIPTERA; TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 79952747696     PISSN: 00166707     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10709-011-9546-4     Document Type: Article

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