Evolution of rRNA gene clusters and telomeric repeats during explosive genome repatterning in Taterillus X (Rodentia, Gerbillinae)

Cytogenetic and Genome Research

Volumn 103, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 94-103

  Dobigny, G ^a,b,c   Ozouf Costaz, C ^b   Bonillo, C ^b   Volobouev, V ^a  

^a MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

^b MNHN   (France)

^c STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME RNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; AUTOSOME; CHROMOSOME; CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION; EPIGENETICS; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE CLUSTER; GENE LOCATION; GENE LOCUS; GENOME ANALYSIS; KARYOTYPE; MAMMAL; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOLUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROBERTSONIAN CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION; RODENT; TANDEM REPEAT; TELOMERE; TELOMERIC REPEAT AMPLIFICATION PROTOCOL;

ANIMALS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; DNA PROBES; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES, RRNA; GENOME; GERBILLINAE; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; PHYLOGENY; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 28S; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 5S; TELOMERE; TRANSLOCATION, GENETIC;

GERBILLINAE; MAMMALIA; MURIDAE; ROBERTSONIA; RODENTIA; TATERILLUS;

EID: 1542579888     PISSN: 14248581     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000076296     Document Type: Article

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