Differences in the distribution and nature of the interstitial telomeric (TTAGGG)n sequences in the chromosomes of the Giraffidae, okapi (Okapia johnstoni), and giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis): Evidence for ancestral telomeres at the okapi polymorphic rob(4;26) fusion site

Cytogenetics and Cell Genetics

Volumn 72, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 310-315

  Vermeesch, J R ^a   De Meurichy, W ^b   Van Den Berghe, H ^a   Marynen, P ^a   Petit, P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b CENTRE FOR RESEARCH AND CONSERVATION   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME POLYMORPHISM; CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TELOMERE;

ANIMALS; ARTIODACTYLA; BASE SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TELOMERE; TRANSLOCATION, GENETIC;

EID: 0029998638     PISSN: 03010171     EISSN: 1424859X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000134211     Document Type: Article

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