New cases of supernumerary chromosomes in characiform fishes

Supernumerary chromosomes were described for five species of Neotropical characiform fishes. These extra chromosomes were small, acrocentric and fully heterochromatic in Leporinus friderici from two different localities as well as in Leporinus sp., but metacentric and fully heterochromatic in Cyphoc...

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Main Authors: Paulo Cesar Venere, Carlos Suetoshi Miyazawa, Pedro Manoel Galetti Junior
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Genética 1999-09-01
Series:Genetics and Molecular Biology
Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1415-47571999000300010

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