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Microchromosomes are building blocks of bird, reptile, and mammal chromosomes

Microchromosomes, once considered unimportant shreds of the chicken genome, are gene-rich elements with a high GC content and few transposable elements. Their origin has been debated for decades. We used cytological and whole-genome sequence comparisons, and chromosome conformation capture, to trace...

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Autores principales: Waters, Paul D., Patel, Hardip R., Ruiz-Herrera, Aurora, Álvarez-González, Lucía, Lister, Nicholas C., Simakov, Oleg, Ezaz, Tariq, Kaur, Parwinder, Frere, Celine, Grützner, Frank, Georges, Arthur, Graves, Jennifer A. Marshall
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: National Academy of Sciences 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8609325/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34725164
http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2112494118