Major Events in Avian Genome Evolution

Living Dinosaurs: The Evolutionary History of Modern Birds

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 325-337

  Organ, Chris L ^a   Edwards, Scott V ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Avian genome evolution and major events; Birds, capturing the attention of naturalists for their beauty, range of behaviors and their mastery of the air; Conspecific karyotype data for Asian barbets, owls and cormorants; Demise of repetitive elements and shrinking genome size largest amniote genome, the red viscacha rat (Tympanoctomys barrerae); Diagram of events in evolution of the avian genome the tree based on a phylogenetic analysis of 19 nuclear genes; Genome size variation within modern birds (Neornithes); Genomics, a larger role in population organismal, ecological and evolutionary biology in birds and other animals; Reorganization of genome through microchromosomes avian karyotype, role in life history of birds with rise of sex chromosomes; Short genes, multigene families and isochores average avian gene, smaller than the average mammalian gene; Structure and organization of organism's chromosomes (its karyotype)

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886152077     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781119990475.ch13     Document Type: Chapter

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