Fluorescent in situ hybridization on mitotic chromosomes of mosquitoes

Journal of Visualized Experiments

Volumn , Issue 67, 2012, Pages

  Timoshevskiy, Vladimir A ^a   Sharma, Atashi ^a   Sharakhov, Igor V ^a   Sharakhova, Maria V ^a  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aedes; Anopheles; Culex; Entomology; FISH; Fluorescent in situ hybridization; Genetics; Genome mapping; Imaginal discs; Immunology; Infectious Disease; Issue 67; Mitotic chromosomes; Molecular Biology; Mosquitoes

Indexed keywords

EID: 84868351294     PISSN: 1940087X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3791/4215     Document Type: Article

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