Architecture and organization of chicken microchromosome 16: Order of the NOR, MHC-Y, and MHC-B subregions

Journal of Heredity

Volumn 100, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 507-514

  Delany, Mary E ^a   Robinson, Charmaine M ^a   Goto, Ronald M ^b   Miller, Marcia M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CITY OF HOPE NATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Chicken; Major histocompatibility complex; Microchromosome 16; Nucleolus organizer region

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARCHITECTURE; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL CHROMOSOME; CENTROMERE; CHICKEN; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CHROMOSOME NOR; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX B; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX Y; MICROCHROMOSOME; MICROCHROMOSOME 16; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; TELOMERE;

ANIMALS; CHICKENS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; NUCLEOLUS ORGANIZER REGION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 69249222669     PISSN: 00221503     EISSN: 14657333     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jhered/esp044     Document Type: Article

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