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Chromosomal phylogeny of Robertsonian races of the house mouse on the island of Madeira: testing between alternative mutational processes.
Genetical research - 1 Dec 2005
Britton-Davidian Janice, Catalan Josette, da Graça Ramalhinho Maria, Auffray Jean-Christophe, Claudia Nunes Ana, Gazave Elodie, Searle Jeremy B, da Luz Mathias Maria
Abstract excerpt
The ancestral karyotype of the house mouse (Mus musculus) consists of 40 acrocentric chromosomes, but numerous races exist within the domesticus subspecies characterized by different metacentric chromosomes formed by the joining at the centromere of two acrocentrics. An exemplary case is present on the island of Madeira where six highly divergent chromosomal races have accumulated different combinations of 20...
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