Physical relationship between satellite I and II DNA in centromeric regions of sheep chromosomes

Chromosome Research

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 375-381

  D'Aiuto, L ^a   Barsanti, P ^a   Mauro, S ^a   Cserpan, I ^b   Lanave, C ^a   Ciccarese, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

^b INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Centromere; Fluorescence in situ hybridization; Junction sequence; Ovis aries; Satellite DNA

Indexed keywords

REPETITIVE DNA; SATELLITE DNA;

ACROCENTRIC CHROMOSOME; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOME ARM; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE ISOLATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHEEP; SISTER CHROMATID;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOMES; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA; DNA, SATELLITE; GENOME; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SHEEP;

ANIMALIA; OVIS ARIES;

EID: 0030783658     PISSN: 09673849     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1018444325085     Document Type: Article

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