Karyological characterization of the endemic Iberian rock lizard, Iberolacerta monticola (Squamata, Lacertidae): Insights into sex chromosome evolution

Cytogenetic and Genome Research

Volumn 142, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 28-39

  Rojo, V ^a   Giovannotti, M ^b   Naveira, H ^a   Nisi Cerioni, P ^b   Gonzalez Tizon A M ^a   Caputo Barucchi, V ^b   Galan P ^a   Olmo, E ^b   Martinez Lage A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF A CORUÑA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITÀ POLITECNICA DELLE MARCHE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Chromosome banding; Comparative cytogenetics; FISH; Rock lizards; Sex chromosomes

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME DNA;

ACROCENTRIC CHROMOSOME; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; C BANDING; CENTROMERE; CHROMATIN; CHROMOSOMAL LOCALIZATION; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CHROMOSOME MAP; CHROMOSOME NOR; CHROMOSOME PAIRING; DNA SEQUENCE; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; FLUOROCHROME STAINING; HETEROCHROMATIN; IBEROLACERTA MONTICOLA; KARYOTYPE; MALE; METAPHASE CHROMOSOME; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX CHROMOSOME; SQUAMATE; TELOMERE; ADULT; CHROMOSOME MARKER; DNA PROBE; EVOLUTION; LIZARD; METAPHASE; PHYLOGENY; STAINING;

IBEROLACERTA; IBEROLACERTA MONTICOLA; LACERTIDAE; PETROSAURUS; SQUAMATA;

EID: 84891071052     PISSN: 14248581     EISSN: 1424859X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000356049     Document Type: Article

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