Extensive homology of chicken macrochromosomes in the karyotypes of trachemys scripta elegans and crocodylus niloticus revealed by chromosome painting despite long divergence times

Cytogenetic and Genome Research

Volumn 136, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 303-307

  Kasai, F ^a   O'Brien, P C M ^a   Martin, S ^b   Ferguson Smith, M A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b La Ferme aux Crocodiles   (France)

Author keywords

Chicken; Chromosome rearrangement; Genome conservation; Reptile

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOSOME; CHICKEN; CHROMOSOME; CHROMOSOME ARM; CHROMOSOME PAINTING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROCODILE; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; KARYOTYPE; MARSUPIAL; MONOTREMATE; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PLACENTAL MAMMALS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TURTLE;

ALLIGATORS AND CROCODILES; ANIMALS; CHICKENS; CHROMOSOME PAINTING; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; KARYOTYPING; PHYLOGENY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TIME FACTORS; TURTLES;

AVES; CROCODYLIDAE (ALL CROCODILES); CROCODYLUS NILOTICUS; GALLUS GALLUS; REPTILIA; TESTUDINES; TRACHEMYS SCRIPTA ELEGANS;

EID: 84862335620     PISSN: 14248581     EISSN: 1424859X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000338111     Document Type: Article

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