Differences in gene density on chicken macrochromosomes and microchromosomes
- 1 March 2000
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Animal Genetics
- Vol. 31 (2) , 96-103
- https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-2052.2000.00565.x
Abstract
The chicken karyotype comprises six pairs of large macrochromosomes and 33 pairs of smaller microchromosomes1. Cytogenetic evidence suggests that microchromosomes may be more gene-dense than macrochr...Keywords
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