Sex Chromosomes and karyotype of the (nearly) mythical creature, the Gila monster, Heloderma suspectum (Squamata: Helodermatidae)

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 8, 2014, Pages

  Pokorná, Martina Johnson ^a,b   Rovatsos, Michail ^a   Kratochvíl, Lukáš ^a  

^a CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^b INSTITUTE OF ANIMAL PHYSIOLOGY AND GENETICS   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ANIMAL; BIOLOGY; COMPARATIVE GENOMIC HYBRIDIZATION; DNA BARCODING; FEMALE; GENETICS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; KARYOTYPING; LIZARD; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; SEX CHROMOSOME; SEX DETERMINATION PROCESS;

ANIMALS; COMPARATIVE GENOMIC HYBRIDIZATION; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DNA BARCODING, TAXONOMIC; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; FEMALE; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; KARYOTYPING; LIZARDS; MALE; SEX CHROMOSOMES; SEX DETERMINATION PROCESSES;

EID: 84905961979     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0104716     Document Type: Article

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