Article
[The biological aspects of chromatin diminution].
Zhurnal obshchei biologii - 1 Jan 2000
Akif'ev A P, Grishanin A K
Abstract excerpt
The chromatine diminution (CD), first discovered by Boveri (1887) in ascarids, represents programmed elimination of a part of genetic material in the nuclei of the somatic cells in cyclops and ascarids, and in the protist macronuclei. The CD can be considered as a macromutation sharply changing c...
Topics
- Animals
- Ascaridida
- Biological Evolution
- Chromatin
- Chromosomes
- Crustacea
- DNA
- Eukaryota
- Genome
- Mutation