Towards the delineation of the ancestral eutherian genome organization: Comparative genome maps of human and the African elephant (Loxodonta africana) generated by chromosome painting

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 270, Issue 1522, 2003, Pages 1331-1340

  Frönicke, Lutz ^a   Wienberg, Johannes ^b,c   Stone, Gary ^a   Adams, Lisa ^a   Stanyon, Roscoe ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Afrotheria; Chromosomal homology; Phylogeny; Synteny conservation; Zoo FISH

Indexed keywords

GENOME; PHYLOGENY;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME PAINTING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; ELEPHANT; FEMALE; GENE MAPPING; GENOME ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HYBRIDIZATION; KARYOTYPE; LOXODONTA AFRICANA; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PLACENTAL MAMMALS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; X CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALIA; ELEPHANT; EUTHERIA; LOXODONTA; LOXODONTA AFRICANA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0037478653     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2003.2383     Document Type: Article

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