Gene synteny comparisons between different vertebrates provide new insights into breakage and fusion events during mammalian karyotype evolution

BMC Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Kemkemer, Claus ^a,d   Kohn, Matthias ^a   Cooper, David N ^b   Froenicke, Lutz ^c   Högel, Josef ^a   Hameister, Horst ^a   Kehrer Sawatzki, Hildegard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHICKEN; CHROMOSOME BREAKAGE; CHROMOSOME FRAGILE SITE; CHROMOSOME POSITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOGENETICS; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE FUSION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC IMMUNIZATION; KARYOTYPE EVOLUTION; MARSUPIAL; NONHUMAN; OPOSSUM; PRIMATE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SYNTENY; ANIMAL; CHROMOSOME; GENETICS; HUMAN; MAMMAL; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY; VERTEBRATE;

DIDELPHIDAE; EUTHERIA; MAMMALIA; METATHERIA; PRIMATES; VERTEBRATA;

ANIMALS; CHROMOSOME BREAKAGE; CHROMOSOMES; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HUMANS; MAMMALS; PHYLOGENY; SYNTENY; VERTEBRATES;

EID: 65649097260     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712148     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-9-84     Document Type: Article

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