For several decades, transcriptional inactivity was considered as one of the particular
features of constitutive heterochromatin and, therefore, of its major component, satellite DNA …

The pericentric satellite III (SatIII or Sat3) and II tandem repeats recently appeared to be
transcribed under stress conditions, and the transcripts were shown to play an essential role …

Abstract Background and Aims Satellite DNAs (satDNAs) are repetitive sequences
composed by tandemly arranged, often highly homogenized units called monomers …

Background The olive fruit fly, Bactrocera oleae, is the most important pest in the olive fruit
agribusiness industry. This is because female flies lay their eggs in the unripe fruits and …

A common feature of eukaryotic centromeres is the presence of large tracts of tandemly
arranged repeats, known as satellite DNA. However, these centromeric repeats appear to …

Cytogenetics of Tephritidae has contributed for more than 30 years to the efficient control of
pest members of this family and the species delimitation among them. The sterile insect …

The species of the four Melipona subgenera can be subdivided into two cytogenetic groups:
species belonging to Group I are characterized by having low heterochromatin content in …

The genus Pseudis comprises six frogs of the family Hylidae and only P. tocantins had
heteromorphic sex chromosomes detected by classical cytogenetics. In this species, the W …

Background Satellite DNA sequences are the most abundant components of
heterochromatin and are repeated in tandem hundreds to thousands of times in the genome …

Background Olive cultivation blends with the history of the Mediterranean countries since
ancient times. Even today, activities around the olive tree constitute major engagements of …