Nascent ZW sex chromosomes in Thecadactylus rapicauda (reptilia, squamata, phyllodactylidae)

Cytogenetic and Genome Research

Volumn 143, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 259-267

  Schmid, Michael ^a   Steinlein, Claus ^a   Haaf, Thomas ^a   Mijares Urrutia, Abraham ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b Universidad Nacional Experimental Francisco de Miranda   (Venezuela)

Author keywords

Gecko; Thecadactylus rapicauda; ZW sex chromosomes

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; C BANDING; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CHROMOSOME NOR; CONSTITUTIVE HETEROCHROMATIN; CYTOGENETICS; FEMALE; GENOME SIZE; GUATEMALA; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PHYLLODACTYLIDAE; REPTILE; SEX CHROMOSOME; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; SQUAMATE; STAINING; THECADACTYLUS RAPICAUDA; VENEZUELA; W SEX CHROMOSOME; Z SEX CHROMOSOME; ANIMAL; CELL NUCLEUS; CHROMOSOME BANDING PATTERN; ERYTHROCYTE; GENETICS; GENOME; KARYOTYPE; LIZARD; METAPHASE; PHYSIOLOGY;

GEKKONIDAE; REPTILIA; SQUAMATA; THECADACTYLUS RAPICAUDA;

RIBOSOME DNA;

ANIMALS; CELL NUCLEUS; CHROMOSOME BANDING; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; ERYTHROCYTES; FEMALE; GENOME; KARYOTYPE; LIZARDS; MALE; METAPHASE; SEX CHROMOSOMES;

EID: 84911991631     PISSN: 14248581     EISSN: 1424859X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000366212     Document Type: Article

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