The cytogenetic architecture of the aphid genome

Biological Reviews

Volumn 90, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 112-125

  Manicardi, Gian Carlo ^a   Mandrioli, Mauro ^a   Blackman, Roger L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

^b DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aphids; Heterochromatin; Holocentric chromosomes; Meiosis; Parthenogenesis

Indexed keywords

ACYRTHOSIPHON PISUM; APHIDIDAE;

RIBOSOME DNA;

ANIMAL; APHID; CHROMOSOME; FEMALE; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETICS; INSECT GENOME; MALE;

ANIMALS; APHIDS; CHROMOSOMES; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; FEMALE; GENOME, INSECT; MALE;

EID: 84936928902     PISSN: 14647931     EISSN: 1469185X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/brv.12096     Document Type: Article

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