Conservation of a chromosome arm in two distantly related marsupial species

Cytogenetic and Genome Research

Volumn 124, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 147-150

  Mohammadi, A ^a   Delbridge, M L ^a   Waters, P D ^a   Marshall Graves, J A ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ARTIFICIAL CHROMOSOME; CHROMOSOME 6Q; CHROMOSOME 7Q; CHROMOSOME ARM; CHROMOSOME ISOLATION; CHROMOSOME MAP; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; KANGAROO; MALE; MARSUPIAL; NONHUMAN; OPOSSUM; ORTHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; ANIMAL; CHROMOSOME; GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE;

DIDELPHIDAE; EUTHERIA; MACROPODIDAE; MACROPUS EUGENII; MAMMALIA; METATHERIA; MONODELPHIS DOMESTICA; VERTEBRATA;

ANIMALS; CHROMOSOMES, MAMMALIAN; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; MALE; MARSUPIALIA; PHYSICAL CHROMOSOME MAPPING;

EID: 65649085208     PISSN: 14248581     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000207522     Document Type: Article

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