Multiple origins of cytologically identical chromosome inversions in the Anopheles gambiae complex.

doi:10.1093/genetics/150.2.807

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Multiple origins of cytologically identical chromosome inversions in the Anopheles gambiae complex.

Genetics - 1 Oct 1998

Caccone A, Min G S, Powell J R

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For more than 60 years, evolutionary cytogeneticists have been using naturally occurring chromosomal inversions to infer phylogenetic histories, especially in insects with polytene chromosomes. The validity of this method is predicated on the assumption that inversions arise only once in the hist...

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Animals
Anopheles
Chromosome Inversion
Genetic Variation
Phylogeny
Sequence Analysis, DNA

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