Links

General

• Endoreplication (Kimball's Biology Pages)
• Polytene Chromosomes, Zhimulev (2001), Encyclopedia of Life Sciences
• Cell Cycle (Kimball's Biology Pages)
• The Cytogenetics Gallery (by Cecilia Wendin, Doug Chapman, David Adler, and Kris Carroll., Univ. Washington, Dept. Pathology)
• Structural organization of the cell nucleus and chromosomes (U.K. Laemmli)
• Chromatin Network - References and links about Eu- and heteorchromatin
• The dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (JM Lackie & JAT Dow)
• Karyotype DB (M. Nenno)

Insects

Drosophila

• Electron micrograph maps (Anja O. Saura, Asko J. Saura and Veikko Sorsa)
• Drosophila Maps at FlyBase (Univ. Indiana)
• Bridges' original 1935 polytene drawings for D. melanogaster, modified from King
• Preparation of PC from Drosophila salivary glands (Woodrow Wilson Biology Inst.)
• Fotos from the preparation of PC of Drosophila virilis.
• Photos of homo-/heterozygous polytene chromosomes (L. Newman)
• Pictures of PC in light microscopy and after in situ hybridization (John W. Sedat)
• Picture of fluorescence in situ hybridization on Drosophila PC (Laemmli, U.)
• A quick and simple introduction to Drosophila melanogaster (Gerard Manning)
• WWW Virtual Library: Drosophila

Anopheles

• Polytene chromosomes in Anopheline and Drosophila (R.D.C. Saunders)
• Photo maps, Graphic maps, In situ maps at AnoDB (Crete)

Plants

Phaseolus

• Minireview: Phaseolus polytene chromosomes (W. Nagl, BeanRef)
• Website about Phaseolus polytene chromosomes (M. Nenno)