Highly species-specific centromeric repetitive DNA sequences in lizards: Molecular cytogenetic characterization of a novel family of satellite DNA sequences isolated from the water monitor lizard (Varanus salvator macromaculatus, Platynota)

Journal of Heredity

Volumn 104, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 798-806

  Chaiprasertsri, Nampech ^a   Uno, Yoshinobu ^b   Peyachoknagul, Surin ^a   Prakhongcheep, Ornjira ^a   Baicharoen, Sudarath ^a,c   Charernsuk, Saranon ^c   Nishida, Chizuko ^d   Matsuda, Yoichi ^b   Koga, Akihiko ^e   Srikulnath, Kornsorn ^a,b  

^a KASETSART UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^b NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c Zoological Park Organization Bangkok   (Thailand)

^d HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

genomic compartmentalization; heterochromatin; monitor lizard; Platynota; satellite DNA

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA; REPETITIVE DNA; SATELLITE DNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOME 2Q; CHROMOSOME 3; CHROMOSOME 5; CYTOGENETICS; DNA ISOLATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENOME; HETEROCHROMATIN; LIZARD; MALE; MICROCHROMOSOME; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

GENOMIC COMPARTMENTALIZATION; HETEROCHROMATIN; MONITOR LIZARD; PLATYNOTA; SATELLITE DNA;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOME BANDING; CHROMOSOMES; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; CYTOGENETIC ANALYSIS; DNA, SATELLITE; KARYOTYPE; LIZARDS; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84886312453     PISSN: 00221503     EISSN: 14657333     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jhered/est061     Document Type: Article

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