Evolutionarily conserved telomeric location of BBC1 and MC1R on a microchromosome questions the identity of MC1R and a pigmentation locus on chromosome 1 in chicken

Chromosome Research

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 651-654

  Sazanov, Alexei ^a   Masabanda, Julio ^a   Ewald, Dagmar ^a   Takeuchi, Sakae ^b   Tixier Boichard, Michèle ^c   Buitkamp, Johannes ^a   Fries, Ruedi ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c CEMAGREF   (France)

Author keywords

Breast basic conserved gene 1; Chicken; Fluorescence in situ hybridization; Gallus gallus; Melanocortin 1 receptor gene; Microchromosome

Indexed keywords

GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; MELANOCORTIN RECEPTOR;

ARTICLE; CHICKEN; CHROMOSOME 1; EVOLUTION; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE LOCATION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; MICROCHROMOSOME; NONHUMAN; PIGMENTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TELOMERE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHICKENS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; PIGMENTATION; RECEPTORS, CORTICOTROPIN; RECEPTORS, MELANOCORTIN; RIBOSOMAL PROTEINS; TELOMERE;

AVES; GALLUS GALLUS;

EID: 0032454898     PISSN: 09673849     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1009269830117     Document Type: Article

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