Male meiosis, heterochromatin characterization and chromosomal location of rDNA in Microtomus lunifer (Berg, 1900) (Hemiptera: Reduviidae: Hammacerinae)

Comparative Cytogenetics

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1-22

  Poggio, María Georgina ^a   Bressa, María José ^a   Papeschi, Alba Graciela ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Evolutionary trends; Hammacerinae; Hemiptera; M chromosomes; Meiosis; RDNA FISH; Reduviidae

Indexed keywords

HEMIPTERA; MICROTOMUS; REDUVIIDAE;

EID: 80052237982     PISSN: 19930771     EISSN: 1993078X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3897/compcytogen.v5i1.1143     Document Type: Article

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