Tracing the evolution of amniote chromosomes

Chromosoma

Volumn 123, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 201-216

  Deakin, Janine E ^a   Ezaz, Tariq ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANBERRA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Ancestral karyotype; Bird; Chromosome painting; Comparative genomics; Mammal; Reptile

Indexed keywords

AMNIOTE; CHROMOSOME; CHROMOSOME HOMOLOGY; CHROMOSOME NUMBER; CHROMOSOME PAINTING; CHROMOSOME REARRANGEMENT; CHROMOSOME STRUCTURE; CPG ISLAND; CYTOGENETICS; EVOLUTIONARY DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; GENE MAPPING; GENOMICS; HUMAN; KARYOTYPE; MACROCHROMOSOME; MACROPUS EUGENII; MAMMAL; MARSUPIAL; MICROCHROMOSOME; MONOTREMATE; NONHUMAN; PLACENTAL MAMMALS; REPTILE; REVIEW; SEX CHROMOSOME; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; THERIAN; X CHROMOSOME; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY; VERTEBRATE;

AVES; MAMMALIA; REPTILIA;

ANIMALS; CHROMOSOME PAINTING; CHROMOSOMES; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HUMANS; PHYLOGENY; VERTEBRATES;

EID: 84904212145     PISSN: 00095915     EISSN: 14320886     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00412-014-0456-y     Document Type: Review

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