Spermatogenesis and nucleolar activity in Triatoma klugi (triatomine, Heteroptera)

Triatoma klugi is a Chagas disease vector in the Rio Grande do Sul State. Triatominae chromosomes are holocentric and sex chromosomes segregation is post-reductional. In this paper we describe the karyotype of male T. klugi and a meiotic analysis including the nucleolar behavior during spermatogenes...

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Main Authors: Laiana Cristina da Costa, Maria Tercília Vilela de Azeredo-Oliveira, Ester Tartarotti
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Genética 2008-01-01
Series:Genetics and Molecular Biology
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1415-47572008000300008