Wing membrane biopsies for bat cytogenetics: Finding of 2n = 54 in irish Rhinolophus hipposideros (rhinolophidae, chiroptera, mammalia) supports two geographically separated chromosomal variants in Europe

Cytogenetic and Genome Research

Volumn 148, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 279-283

  Kacprzyk, Joanna ^a   Teeling, Emma C ^a   Kelleher, Conor ^b   Volleth, Marianne ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b Cork County Bat Group ^*  (Ireland)

^c OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Karyotype evolution; Non lethal sampling; Rhinolophidae

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BAT; BIOPSY; CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOME NUMBER; CHROMOSOME VARIANT; CYTOGENETICS; DIPLOIDY; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GERMANY; HETEROCHROMATIN; IRELAND; KARYOTYPE; KARYOTYPE EVOLUTION; MALE; METAPHASE; MYOTIS MYOTIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHINOLOPHUS HIPPOSIDEROS; WING MEMBRANE BIOPSY; X CHROMOSOME; Y CHROMOSOME; ANIMAL; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUE; CLASSIFICATION; CYTOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; FIBROBLAST; GENETICS; KARYOTYPING; VETERINARY; WING;

ANIMALS; BIOPSY; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; CHIROPTERA; DIPLOIDY; ECOSYSTEM; FEMALE; FIBROBLASTS; IRELAND; KARYOTYPING; MALE; WINGS, ANIMAL;

EID: 84976330786     PISSN: 14248581     EISSN: 1424859X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000447111     Document Type: Article

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