The evolution of marsupial and monotreme chromosomes

Cytogenetic and Genome Research

Volumn 137, Issue 2-4, 2012, Pages 113-129

  Deakin, J E ^a   Graves, J A M ^a,b   Rens, W ^c  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ancestral karyotypes; Chromosome painting; Gene mapping; Genome evolution; Sex chromosomes

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOSOME; CHROMOSOME 1; CHROMOSOME 5; CHROMOSOME 7; CHROMOSOME 8; CHROMOSOME 9; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CHROMOSOME NUMBER; CHROMOSOME PAINTING; CHROMOSOME REARRANGEMENT; COMPARATIVE GENE MAPPING; CONSTITUTIVE HETEROCHROMATIN; DIPLOIDY; GENOME ANALYSIS; KARYOTYPE; KARYOTYPE EVOLUTION; MARSUPIAL; MEIOSIS; MONOTREMATE; NONHUMAN; OPOSSUM; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX CHROMOSOME; SEX DETERMINATION; X CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOME PAINTING; CHROMOSOMES, MAMMALIAN; CYTOGENETIC ANALYSIS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; KARYOTYPING; MALE; MARSUPIALIA; MONOTREMATA; PHYLOGENY; SEX CHROMOSOMES; SEX DETERMINATION PROCESSES; TELOMERE;

EUTHERIA; MAMMALIA; METATHERIA; MONOTREMATA; MYA; REPTILIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84866088419     PISSN: 14248581     EISSN: 1424859X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000339433     Document Type: Article

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