Integrating cytogenetics and genomics in comparative evolutionary studies of cichlid fish

BMC Genomics

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Mazzuchelli, Juliana ^a   Kocher, Thomas D ^b   Yang, Fengtang ^c   Martins, Cesar ^a  

^a SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

^b University of Maryland   (United States)

^c WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

BACs; Chromosome; Cichlidae; Genome evolution; Linkage groups; Molecular cytogenetics

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME MAP; CHROMOSOME REARRANGEMENT; CICHLID; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER MODEL; CYTOGENETICS; FEMALE; GENE LIBRARY; GENE LOCATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC MARKER; GENOME ANALYSIS; GENOMICS; MALE; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OREOCHROMIS NILOTICUS; SYNTENY;

ANIMALS; CHROMOSOMAL INSTABILITY; CHROMOSOMES, ARTIFICIAL, BACTERIAL; CICHLIDS; CYTOGENETICS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOMICS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; SEX CHROMOSOMES;

AFRICAN CICHLIDS; CICHLIDAE; OREOCHROMIS NILOTICUS; PISCES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84865831128     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-13-463     Document Type: Article

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