The fluorescent karyotype of the tachnid fly Voria ruralis Fallén (Diptera)

Wake, C.T.; Ward, O.G.

Experientia 31(3): 291-294

1975


ISSN/ISBN: 0014-4754
PMID: 46829
Document Number: 82841
It was shown in laboratory investigations in Arizona with the aid of a fluorescent microstaining technique that the diploid chromosome number of Voria ruralis (Fall.), a Tachinid that parasitises Trichoplusia ni (Hb.), was 12, there being five pairs of autosomes and one of sex chromosomes. The structure and pattern of the chromosomes is described and discussed.

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