Accumulation of rare sex chromosome rearrangements in the African pygmy mouse, Mus (Nannomys) minutoides: A whole-arm reciprocal translocation (WART) involving an X-autosome fusion

Chromosome Research

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 223-230

  Veyrunes, Frédéric ^a,b   Watson, Johan ^c   Robinson, Terence J ^d   Britton Davidian, Janice ^a  

^a INSTITUT DES SCIENCES DE L EVOLUTION   (France)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c Tourism and Environmental Affairs   (South Africa)

^d STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

African pygmy mouse; Nannomys; Robertsonian fusion; Sex chromosomes; Sex autosome translocation; WART

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOSOME; CHROMOSOME REARRANGEMENT; CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION; FEMALE; GENE FUSION; GENE TRANSLOCATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; KARYOTYPE; MALE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PLATYPUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECIPROCAL CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION; SEX CHROMOSOME; SEX DETERMINATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; X CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALS; CHROMOSOMES, MAMMALIAN; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; MALE; MICE; SEX CHROMOSOMES; TRANSLOCATION, GENETIC;

BAIOMYS; MAMMALIA; MUS; MUS MINUTOIDES; MUS MUSCULUS; ROBERTSONIA;

EID: 33847647962     PISSN: 09673849     EISSN: 15736849     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10577-006-1116-8     Document Type: Article

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