Assignment of Atlantic salmon (<it>Salmo salar) </it>linkage groups to specific chromosomes: Conservation of large syntenic blocks corresponding to whole chromosome arms in rainbow trout (<it>Oncorhynchus mykiss</it>)
<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Most teleost species, especially freshwater groups such as the Esocidae which are the closest relatives of salmonids, have a karyotype comprising 25 pairs of acrocentric chromosomes and 48–52 chromosome arms. After the common ancesto...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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BMC
2009-08-01
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| Series: | BMC Genetics |
| Online Access: | http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2156/10/46 |