Generating high variability of B chromosomes in Eyprepocnemis plorans (grasshopper)
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Detection of B chromosomes in interphase hemolymph nuclei from living specimens of the grasshopper Eyprepocnemis plorans.
The two most important evolutionary properties of B chromosomes are their transmission rate (which suggests their selfishness when significantly higher than 0.5) and their net effects on carrier fitness (usually negative for parasitic Bs). The study of transmission rate unavoidably requires the analysis of many controlled crosses in order to accurately measure population average transmission ra...
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عنوان ژورنال: Heredity
سال: 1993
ISSN: 0018-067X,1365-2540
DOI: 10.1038/hdy.1993.149