B-chromosome ribosomal DNA is functional in the grasshopper Eyprepocnemis plorans

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Ruiz Estévez, Mercedes ^a   López León, M Dolores ^a   Cabrero, Josefa ^a   Camacho, Juan Pedro M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENINE; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; GENOMIC DNA; RIBOSOME DNA;

ARTICLE; AUTOSOME; CHROMOSOME INSERTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOGENETICS; CYTOLOGY; DNA SEQUENCE; EYPREPOCNEMIS PLORANS; FEMALE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GRASSHOPPER; MALE; MEIOTIC PROPHASE I; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOLUS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ANIMALS; CELL NUCLEOLUS; CHROMOSOMES, INSECT; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; FEMALE; GRASSHOPPERS; MALE; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EYPREPOCNEMIS PLORANS;

EID: 84860521981     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0036600     Document Type: Article

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