Interstitial telomeric motifs in squamate reptiles: When the exceptions outnumber the rule

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 8, 2015, Pages

  Rovatsos, Michail ^a   Kratochvíl, Luká ^a   Altmanová, Marie ^a   Pokorná, Martina Johnson ^a,b  

^a CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^b INSTITUTE OF ANIMAL PHYSIOLOGY AND GENETICS   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOME ARM; CHROMOSOME REARRANGEMENT; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; INTERSTITIAL TELOMERIC SEQUENCE; KARYOTYPE; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; SPECIES COMPARISON; SQUAMATE; TELOMERE; ANIMAL; GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE MOTIF; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; REPTILE;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CENTROMERE; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; KARYOTYPE; NUCLEOTIDE MOTIFS; REPTILES; TELOMERE;

EID: 84942133558     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0134985     Document Type: Article

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