Cytogenetic studies on Gonatodes (Reptilia, Squamata, Sphaerodactylidae)

Cytogenetic and Genome Research

Volumn 144, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 47-61

  Schmid, Michael ^a   Steinlein, Claus ^a   Feichtinger, Wolfgang ^a   Haaf, Thomas ^a   Mijares Urrutia, Abraham ^b   Schargel, Walter E ^c   Hedges, S Blair ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b Universidad Nacional Experimental Francisco de Miranda   (Venezuela)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON   (United States)

^d PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Banding analyses; Fish; Geckos; Gonatodes; Karyotype evolution; Meiotic chromosomes; Mitotic chromosomes

Indexed keywords

REPETITIVE DNA; MICROSATELLITE DNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME; CHROMOSOME NOR; CHROMOSOME NUMBER; CONSTITUTIVE HETEROCHROMATIN; CYTOGENETICS; DNA PROBE; DNA SEQUENCE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENOME SIZE; GONATODES; GONATODES ALBOGULARIS; GONATODES ANNULARIS; GONATODES CECILIAE; GONATODES FALCONENSIS; GONATODES TANIAE; HYBRIDIZATION; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; KARYOTYPE; MALE; METAPHASE; NONHUMAN; REPTILE; SEX CHROMOSOME; X CHROMOSOME; ANIMAL; CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; GENETICS; LIZARD; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TELOMERE;

GEKKONIDAE; GONATODES; REPTILIA; SQUAMATA;

ANIMALS; CENTROMERE; CYTOGENETIC ANALYSIS; FEMALE; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; KARYOTYPE; LIZARDS; MALE; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TELOMERE;

EID: 84908221105     PISSN: 14248581     EISSN: 1424859X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000367929     Document Type: Article

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