A brief history of human autosomes

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 354, Issue 1388, 1999, Pages 1447-1470

  Haig, David ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ancestral karyotype; Artiodactyls; Chromosome painting; Comparative mapping; Conserved synteny; Primates

Indexed keywords

APE; AUTOSOME; CHIMPANZEE; EVOLUTION; GENE MAPPING; GIBBON; KARYOTYPE; POPULATION GENETICS;

ALOCASIA MACRORRHIZOS; ARTIODACTYLA; HYLOBATES SP.; HYLOBATIDAE; LEMURIDAE; PAN (APE); PAN TROGLODYTES; PRIMATES;

EID: 0033615099     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.1999.0490     Document Type: Article

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