Maintenance of syntenic groups between cathartidae and gallus gallus indicates symplesiomorphic karyotypes in new world vultures

Genetics and Molecular Biology

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 80-83

  Tagliarini, Marcella M ^a   O'Brien, Patricia C M ^b   Ferguson Smith, Malcolm A ^b   de Oliveira, Edivaldo H C ^a,b,c  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PARÁ   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c INSTITUTO EVANDRO CHAGAS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Cathartes; FISH; Gallus; Leucopternis; Whole chromosome probes

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOSOME; BIRD; CATHARTIDAE; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CHROMOSOME REARRANGEMENT; CYTOTAXONOMY; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GALLUS GALLUS; GENE ORDER; GENETIC CONSERVATION; KARYOTYPING; MALE; METAPHASE; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NONHUMAN; PLESIOMORPHY; SEX CHROMOSOME;

ACCIPITRIDAE; AVES; CATHARTES; CATHARTES AURA; CATHARTIDAE; FALCONIFORMES; GALLUS; GALLUS GALLUS; LEUCOPTERNIS; LEUCOPTERNIS ALBICOLLIS;

EID: 79851472888     PISSN: 14154757     EISSN: 16784685     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S1415-47572010005000117     Document Type: Article

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