Horses, asses and zebras belong to the genus Equus and are the only extant species of the
family Equidae in the order Perissodactyla. In a previous work we demonstrated that a key …

In mammals, centromeres are epigenetically specified by the histone H3 variant CENP-A
and are typically associated with satellite DNA. We previously described the first example of …

Using laser microdissection we prepared a set of horse chromosome arm-specific probes.
Most of the probes were generated from horse chromosomes, some of them were derived …

Complete sets of chromosome-specific painting probes, derived from flow-sorted
chromosomes of human (HSA), Equus caballus (ECA) and Equus burchelli (EBU) were …

Centromeres are highly distinctive genetic loci whose function is specified largely by
epigenetic mechanisms. Understanding the role of DNA sequences in centromere function …

Equidae is a small family which comprises horses, African and Asiatic asses, and zebras.
Despite equids having diverged quite recently, their karyotypes underwent rapid evolution …

Cross-species chromosome painting has been applied to most of the species making up the
numerically small family Equidae. However, comparative mapping data were still lacking in …

High-resolution physically ordered gene maps for equine homologs of human chromosome
5 (HSA5), viz., horse chromosomes 14 and 21 (ECA14 and ECA21), were generated by …

Przewalski's wild horse (E. przewalskii, EPR) has a diploid chromosome number of 2n= 66
while the domestic horse (E. caballus, ECA) has a diploid chromosome number of 2n= 64 …

Centromere repositioning (CR) is a recently discovered biological phenomenon consisting
of the emergence of a new centromere along a chromosome and the inactivation of the old …