The robertsonian phenomenon in the house mouse: mutation, meiosis and speciation

Chromosoma

Volumn 123, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 529-544

  Garagna, Silvia ^a   Page, Jesus ^b   Fernandez Donoso, Raul ^c   Zuccotti, Maurizio ^d   Searle, Jeremy B ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

^e Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; CENTROMERE; CHEMISTRY; CHROMOSOME; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; FEMALE; FERTILITY; GENE TRANSLOCATION; GENETICS; HISTORY; KARYOTYPE; MALE; MEIOSIS; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MOUSE; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; CHROMOSOMES, MAMMALIAN; FEMALE; FERTILITY; GENETIC SPECIATION; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; KARYOTYPE; MALE; MEIOSIS; MICE; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; TRANSLOCATION, GENETIC;

EID: 84934294825     PISSN: 00095915     EISSN: 14320886     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00412-014-0477-6     Document Type: Review

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