Chromatin Diminution in 'Mesocyclops edax' (Crustacea, Copepoda): Similarity of the Pre- and Post-diminution Euchromatic Genomes.

Chromatin diminution is defined as the elimination of DNA during the differentiation of early embryonic cells into pre-somatic cells. While it was first observed in the nematode Parascaris equorum, it also been identified in other parasitic nematodes, hagfish and copepods. In the copepod Mesocyclops...

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Main Author: McKinnon, Christian
Other Authors: Drouin, Guy
Language:en
Published: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa 2012
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10393/23416
http://dx.doi.org/10.20381/ruor-6139