Molecular cytogenetic characterization of the genome organization of the 6-banded armadillo (Euphractus sexcinctus)

Cytogenetic and Genome Research

Volumn 132, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 31-40

  Liu, Y ^a   Ye, J ^a,b   Fu, B ^c   Ng, B L ^c   Wang, J ^a   Su, W ^a   Yang, F ^c   Nie, W ^a  

^a KUNMING INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (China)

^b SHAOXING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

6 Banded armadillo; Ancestral Xenarthra karyotype; Cloning; Cross species chromosome painting; FISH mapping; Repetitive DNAs; Sequencing

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARMADILLO; ARTICLE; C BANDING; CHROMOSOME MAP; CHROMOSOME PAINTING; CYTOGENETICS; EDENTATA; EUCHROMATIN; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENOME ANALYSIS; HUMAN; KARYOTYPE; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYNAPOMORPHY;

ANIMALS; ARMADILLOS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME BANDING; FEMALE; GENOME; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; KARYOTYPING; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID;

ARMADILLO; EUPHRACTUS SEXCINCTUS; MAMMALIA; XENARTHRA;

EID: 78149360703     PISSN: 14248581     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000318706     Document Type: Article

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