Differentiation of Z and W chromosomes revealed by replication banding and FISH mapping of sex-chromosome-linked DNA markers in the cassowary (Aves, Ratitae)

Chromosome Research

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 635-640

  Nishida Umehara, Chizuko ^a   Fujiwara, Atushi ^a   Ogawa, Akira ^b   Mizuno, Shigeki ^b   Abe, Syuiti ^a   Yoshida, Michihiro C ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Casuarius casuarius; Sex chromosome; Structural rearrangement

Indexed keywords

DNA MARKER;

ARTICLE; CHICKEN; CHROMOSOME REPLICATION; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; FOWL; HETEROCHROMATIN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALS; CHROMOSOME BANDING; GENETIC MARKERS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; KARYOTYPING; PALAEOGNATHAE; SEX CHROMOSOMES;

AVES; CASUARIUS CASUARIUS; GALLIFORMES; GALLUS GALLUS; PALAEOGNATHAE;

EID: 0033407435     PISSN: 09673849     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1009236103013     Document Type: Article

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