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A FISH-based chromosome map for the European corn borer yields insights into ancient chromosomal fusions in the silkworm.
Heredity - 1 Jan 2016
Yasukochi Y, Ohno M, Shibata F, Jouraku A, Nakano R, Ishikawa Y, Sahara K
Abstract excerpt
A significant feature of the genomes of Lepidoptera, butterflies and moths, is the high conservation of chromosome organization. Recent remarkable progress in genome sequencing of Lepidoptera has revealed that syntenic gene order is extensively conserved across phylogenetically distant species. The ancestral karyotype of Lepidoptera is thought to be n=31; however, that of the most well-studied moth, Bombyx mori,...
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