Mechanisms of the Evolutionary Chromosome Plasticity: Integrating the 'Centromere-from-Telomere' Hypothesis with Telomere Length Regulation.

abstract：:To define the process of karyotypic evolution in the Galliformes on a molecular basis, we conducted genome-wide comparative chromosome painting for eight species, i.e. silver pheasant (Lophura nycthemera), Lady Amherst's pheasant (Chrysolophus amherstiae), ring-necked pheasant (Phasianus colchicus), turkey (Meleagris ...

journal_title：Cytogenetic and genome research

authors： Shibusawa M,Nishibori M,Nishida-Umehara C,Tsudzuki M,Masabanda J,Griffin DK,Matsuda Y

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chromosomal locations and amounts of 5-methylcytosine-rich chromosome regions were detected in the karyotypes of 13 bird species by indirect immunofluorescence using a monoclonal anti-5-methylcytosine antibody. These species belong to 7 orders and 10 families of modern (Neognathae) and primitive (Palaeognathae) birds ...

journal_title：Cytogenetic and genome research

authors： Schmid M,Steinlein C

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:New data are presented on the sex chromosomes of the fish species Eigenmannia virescens (Gymnotiformes, Sternopygidae). A new finding, involving the occurrence of ZZ/ZW sex chromosomes, is described in specimens sampled from the São Francisco and Amazon river basins in Brazil. All individuals had a chromosome number o...

journal_title：Cytogenetic and genome research

authors： de Almeida-Toledo LF,Daniel-Silva MF,Moysés CB,Fonteles SB,Lopes CE,Akama A,Foresti F

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Integrase (IN) and reverse transcriptase (RT) play a central role in transposition of retroelements. The mechanism of integration by IN and the steps of the replication process mediated by RT are briefly described here. Recently, active recombinant forms of Ty1 IN and RT have been obtained. This has allowed a more det...

journal_title：Cytogenetic and genome research

authors： Wilhelm FX,Wilhelm M,Gabriel A

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Physical mapping of 5S rDNA in 2 species of knifefishes, Gymnotuspantanal and G. paraguensis (Gymnotiformes), was performed using fluorescence in situ hybridization with a 5S rDNA probe. The 5S rDNA PCR product from the genomes of both species was also sequenced and aligned to determine non-transcribed spacer sequence...

journal_title：Cytogenetic and genome research

authors： da Silva M,Matoso DA,Vicari MR,de Almeida MC,Margarido VP,Artoni RF

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Radiation-induced chromosome damage can be measured in interphase using the Premature Chromosome Condensation (PCC) technique. With the introduction of a new PCC technique using the potent phosphatase inhibitor calyculin-A, chromosomes can be condensed within five minutes, and it is now possible to examine the early d...

journal_title：Cytogenetic and genome research

authors： Kawata T,Ito H,Uno T,Saito M,Yamamoto S,Furusawa Y,Durante M,George K,Wu H,Cucinotta FA

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spinocerebellar ataxia type 12 (SCA12), now described in European-American and Asian (Indian) pedigrees, is unique among the SCAs from clinical, pathological, and molecular perspectives. Clinically, the distinguishing feature is early and prominent action tremor with variability in other signs. Pathologically, brain M...

journal_title：Cytogenetic and genome research

authors： Holmes SE,O'Hearn E,Margolis RL

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We analyzed genetic changes in condylomas (four cases), vulvar intraepithelial neoplasia I-III (VIN I-III, eleven cases), and primary vulvar squamous cell carcinomas (VSCC, ten cases) by high-resolution comparative genomic hybridization (HR-CGH) and flowcytometry. All samples were also human papilloma virus (HPV)-geno...

journal_title：Cytogenetic and genome research

authors： Bryndorf T,Kirchhoff M,Larsen J,Andreasson B,Bjerregaard B,Westh H,Rose H,Lundsteen C

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Precise breakpoint definition of chromosomal rearrangements using conventional banding techniques often fails, especially when more than two breakpoints are involved. The classic banding procedure results in a pattern of alternating light and dark bands. Hence, in banded chromosomes a specific chromosomal band is rath...

journal_title：Cytogenetic and genome research

authors： Chudoba I,Hickmann G,Friedrich T,Jauch A,Kozlowski P,Senger G

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:X chromosome inactivation and DNA methylation are reviewed, with emphasis on the contributions of Susumu Ohno and the predictions made in my 1975 paper (Riggs, 1975), in which I proposed the "maintenance methylase" model for somatic inheritance of methylation patterns and suggested that DNA methylation would be involv...

journal_title：Cytogenetic and genome research

authors： Riggs AD

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent large-scale genomic studies within human populations have identified numerous genomic regions as copy number variant (CNV). As these CNV regions often overlap coding regions of the genome, large lists of potentially copy number polymorphic genes have been produced that are candidates for disease association. Mo...

journal_title：Cytogenetic and genome research

authors： Bailey JA,Kidd JM,Eichler EE

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article presents the first physical mapping carried out in the Senegalese sole (Solea senegalensis), an important marine fish species of Southern Europe. Eight probes were designated to pick up genes of interest in aquaculture (candidate genes) from a bacterial artificial chromosome (BAC) library using a method o...

journal_title：Cytogenetic and genome research

authors： García-Cegarra A,Merlo MA,Ponce M,Portela-Bens S,Cross I,Manchado M,Rebordinos L

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As chromatin structures, telomeres undergo epigenetic regulation of their maintenance and function. In plants, these processes are likely of a higher complexity than in animals or yeasts, as exemplified by methylation of cytosines in plant telomeric DNA or reversible developmental regulation of plant telomerase. We hi...

journal_title：Cytogenetic and genome research

authors： Fojtová M,Fajkus J

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The human brain is distinguished by its remarkable size, high energy consumption, and cognitive abilities compared to all other mammals and non-human primates. However, little is known about what has accelerated brain evolution in the human lineage. One possible explanation is that the appearance of advanced communica...

journal_title：Cytogenetic and genome research

authors： Schneider E,Jensen LR,Farcas R,Kondova I,Bontrop RE,Navarro B,Fuchs E,Kuss AW,Haaf T

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently, the reticulated giraffe (G. reticulata) was identified as a distinct species, which emphasized the need for intensive research in this interesting animal. To shed light on the meiotic process as a source of biodiversity, we analysed the frequency and distribution of meiotic recombination in 2 reticulated gir...

journal_title：Cytogenetic and genome research

authors： Vozdova M,Fröhlich J,Kubickova S,Sebestova H,Rubes J

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic strategies for the post-genomic sequence age will be designed to provide information about gene function in a myriad of physiological processes. Here an ENU mutagenesis program (http://reprogenomics.jax.org) is described that is generating a large resource of mutant mouse models of infertility; male and female...

journal_title：Cytogenetic and genome research

authors： Lessard C,Pendola JK,Hartford SA,Schimenti JC,Handel MA,Eppig JJ

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Congo African grey parrot (Psittacus erithacus, PER) is an endemic species of Central Africa, valued for its intelligence and listed as vulnerable due to poaching and habitat destruction. Improved knowledge about the P. erithacus genome is needed to address key biological questions and conservation of this species...

journal_title：Cytogenetic and genome research

authors： Seibold-Torres C,Owens E,Chowdhary R,Ferguson-Smith MA,Tizard I,Raudsepp T

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe the case of a male newborn with ring chromosome 13 found to have dysmorphic features, growth retardation, imperforate anus, and ambiguous genitalia. An initial karyotype showed 46,XY,r(13)(p13q34) in the 30 cells analyzed. SNP microarray from peripheral blood revealed not only an 8.14-Mb 13q33.2q34 deletio...

journal_title：Cytogenetic and genome research

authors： Kaylor J,Alfaro M,Ishwar A,Sailey C,Sawyer J,Zarate YA

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The sense of taste is a chemosensory system responsible for basic food appraisal. Humans distinguish between five primary tastes: bitter, sweet, sour, salty and umami. The molecular events in the perception of bitter taste are believed to start with the binding of specific water-soluble molecules to G-protein-coupled ...

journal_title：Cytogenetic and genome research

authors： Conte C,Ebeling M,Marcuz A,Nef P,Andres-Barquin PJ

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Loss-of-function mutations of the MECP2 gene are the cause of most cases of Rett syndrome in females, a progressive neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by severe mental retardation, global regression, hand stereotypies, and microcephaly. On the other hand, gain of dosage of this gene causes the MECP2 duplication...

journal_title：Cytogenetic and genome research

authors： Mayo S,Monfort S,Roselló M,Orellana C,Oltra S,Armstrong J,Català V,Martínez F

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A patient with a rare interstitial deletion of chromosomal band 2q33.2q33.3 is described. The clinical features resembled the 2q33.1 microdeletion syndrome (Glass syndrome), including mental retardation, facial dysmorphism, high-arched narrow palate, growth deficiency, and speech delay. The chromosomal aberration was ...

journal_title：Cytogenetic and genome research

authors： Papoulidis I,Paspaliaris V,Papageorgiou E,Siomou E,Dagklis T,Sotiriou S,Thomaidis L,Manolakos E

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Xenopus is an important model organism for the study of genome duplication in vertebrates. With the full genome sequence of diploid Xenopus tropicalis available, and that of allotetraploid X. laevis close to being finished, we will be able to expand our understanding of how duplicated genes have evolved. One of the ke...

journal_title：Cytogenetic and genome research

authors： Kwon T

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:All dogroses (Rosa sect. Caninae) are characterized by the peculiar canina meiosis in which genetic material is unevenly distributed between female and male gametes. The pan-canina rDNA family (termed beta) appears to be conserved in all dogroses analyzed so far. Here, we have studied rDNAs in experimental hybrids obt...

journal_title：Cytogenetic and genome research

authors： Crhak Khaitova L,Werlemark G,Kovarikova A,Nybom H,Kovarik A

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Y chromosomal azoospermia factor (AZF) regions AZFa, AZFb and AZFc represent hotspots for copy number variations (CNVs) in the human genome; yet the number of reports of AZFa-linked duplications remains limited. Nonallelic homologous recombination has been proposed as the underlying mechanism of CNVs in AZF regions. I...

journal_title：Cytogenetic and genome research

authors： Katsumi M,Ishikawa H,Tanaka Y,Saito K,Kobori Y,Okada H,Saito H,Nakabayashi K,Matsubara Y,Ogata T,Fukami M,Miyado M

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The DDX4/VASA gene plays an important role in germ cell development in animals. We cloned and characterized a marsupial DDX4/VASA homolog (TvDDX4, 2,769 bps) from the possum and examined its expression in adult tissues at mRNA and protein levels. The isolated cDNA had a deduced 704 amino acid residues with significant...

journal_title：Cytogenetic and genome research

authors： Cui S,Nanayakkara K,Selwood L

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:B chromosomes are now known in eight Brazilian rodent species: Akodon montensis, Holochilus brasiliensis, Nectomys rattus, N. squamipes, Oligoryzomys flavescens, Oryzomys angouya, Proechimys sp. 2 and Trinomys iheringi. Typically these chromosomes are heterogeneous relative to size, morphology, banding patterns, prese...

journal_title：Cytogenetic and genome research

authors： Silva MJ,Yonenaga-Yassuda Y

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During this study, we analysed the pericentric inversion that distinguishes human chromosome 12 (HSA12) from the homologous chimpanzee chromosome (PTR10). Two large chimpanzee-specific duplications of 86 and 23 kb were observed in the breakpoint regions, which most probably occurred associated with the inversion. The ...

journal_title：Cytogenetic and genome research

authors： Kehrer-Sawatzki H,Sandig CA,Goidts V,Hameister H

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Unbalanced whole-arm translocations (WATs) of the long arm of chromosome 1, resulting in complete trisomy 1q, are chromosomal abnormalities detectable in both solid tumors and hematologic neoplasms. Among the WATs of 1q to acrocentric chromosomes, a few patients with der(1;15) described as a dicentric chromosome have ...

journal_title：Cytogenetic and genome research

authors： Fogu G,Campus PM,Cambosu F,Moro MA,Sanna R,Fozza C,Nieddu RM,Longinotti M,Montella A

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations/deletions of the IMMP2L gene have been associated with different cognitive/behavioral disturbances, including autism spectrum disorders (ASD). The penetrance of these defects is not complete since they often are inherited from a healthy parent. Using array-CGH in a cohort of 37 ASD patients, we found 2 subje...

journal_title：Cytogenetic and genome research

authors： Baldan F,Gnan C,Franzoni A,Ferino L,Allegri L,Passon N,Damante G

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Correct imprinting is crucial for normal fetal and placental development in mammals. Experimental evidence in animal models and epidemiological studies in humans suggest that assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs) can interfere with imprinted gene regulation in gametogenesis and early embryogenesis. Bos taurus is a...

journal_title：Cytogenetic and genome research

authors： Hansmann T,Heinzmann J,Wrenzycki C,Zechner U,Niemann H,Haaf T

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00