Reconstruction of gross avian genome structure, organization and evolution suggests that the chicken lineage most closely resembles the dinosaur avian ancestor

BMC Genomics

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Romanov, Michael N ^a   Farré, Marta ^b   Lithgow, Pamela E ^a   Fowler, Katie E ^a,j   Skinner, Benjamin M ^c   O'Connor, Rebecca ^a   Fonseka, Gothami ^a   Backström, Niclas ^d   Matsuda, Yoichi ^e   Nishida, Chizuko ^f   Houde, Peter ^g   Jarvis, Erich D ^h   Ellegren, Hans ^d   Burt, David W ⁱ   Larkin, Denis M ^b   Griffin, Darren K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL VETERINARY COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^d UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^e NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^f HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^g NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^j CANTERBURY CHRIST CHURCH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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Author keywords

Ancestral karyotype; Avian genome; Chromosome evolution; Dinosaur

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIRD; BUDGERIGAR; CHICKEN; CHROMOSOME 1; CHROMOSOME 11; CHROMOSOME 12; CHROMOSOME 20; CHROMOSOME 5; CHROMOSOME 6; CHROMOSOME NUMBER; CHROMOSOME REARRANGEMENT; DINOSAUR; DUCK; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENOME ANALYSIS; GLYCOSYLATION; KARYOTYPE; OSTRICH; PASSERIFORMES; PSITTACINE; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; SYNTENY; TAENIOPYGIA GUTTATA; TURKEY (BIRD); ANIMAL; CHROMOSOME PAINTING; GENE ONTOLOGY; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETICS; GENOMICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION;

ANIMALS; CHICKENS; CHROMOSOME PAINTING; DINOSAURS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE ONTOLOGY; GENOMICS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; KARYOTYPE; PASSERIFORMES; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SYNTENY;

EID: 84979856712     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-15-1060     Document Type: Article

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