Comparative cytogenetics of bats (Chiroptera): The prevalence of Robertsonian translocations limits the power of chromosomal characters in resolving interfamily phylogenetic relationships

Chromosome Research

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 155-170

  Mao, Xiuguang ^a,d   Nie, Wenhui ^a   Wang, Jinhuan ^a   Su, Weiting ^a   Feng, Qing ^a   Wang, Yingxiang ^a   Dobigny, Gauthier ^c   Yang, Fengtang ^b  

^a KUNMING INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (China)

^b WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^c INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Chiroptera; Chromosomal rearrangement; Convergence; Emballonuridae; Evolution; Karyology; Megadermatidae; Robertsonian

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BAT; CHROMOSOME BANDING PATTERN; CHROMOSOME PAINTING; CHROMOSOME REARRANGEMENT; CLADISTICS; CYTOGENETICS; DNA SEQUENCE; MAMMALIAN GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NONHUMAN; PARSIMONY ANALYSIS; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROBERTSONIAN CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ANIMALS; CELL LINE; CHIROPTERA; CHROMOSOME BANDING; CHROMOSOME PAINTING; CHROMOSOMES, MAMMALIAN; CYTOGENETICS; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; MALE; PHYLOGENY; PREVALENCE; TRANSLOCATION, GENETIC;

CHIROPTERA; EMBALLONURIDAE; MEGADERMATIDAE; ROBERTSONIA;

EID: 39749152815     PISSN: 09673849     EISSN: 15736849     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10577-007-1206-2     Document Type: Article

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