The past decade has witnessed an explosion of genome sequencing and mapping in
evolutionary diverse species. While full genome sequencing of mammals is rapidly …

Many different chromosomal races with reduced chromosome number due to the presence
of Robertsonian fusion metacentrics have been described in western Europe and northern …

Since being established in 1963, the murine fibroblast cell line NIH 3T3 has been used in
thousands of studies. NIH 3T3 immortalized spontaneously and became tetraploid shortly …

Rodentia is the most species-rich mammalian order and includes several important
laboratory model species. The amount of new information on karyotypic and phylogenetic …

Available data on karyotypes of the mammals from Turkey and neighbouring regions (the
Balkans, the Caucasus, and the Middle East) were summarized and reviewed in respect of …

The phenomenon of a remarkable conservation of the X chromosome in eutherian mammals
has been first described by Susumu Ohno in 1964. A notable exception is the cetartiodactyl …

A comparative genomic analysis was carried out in the mole vole sibling species Ellobius
tancrei and E. talpinus. Performing fluorescent in situ hybridisation (Zoo-FISH) using …

Background The Syrian hamster (golden hamster, Mesocricetus auratus) is gaining
importance as a new experimental animal model for multiple pathogens, including emerging …

Rodents are, taxonomically, the most species-rich mammalian order. They display a series
of special genomic features including the highest karyotypic diversity, frequent occurrence of …

Background Over the past two decades, chromosome microdissection has been widely used
in diagnostics and research enabling analysis of chromosomes and their regions through …