Closely related species of Drosophila can contain different libraries of middle repetitive DNA sequences.

abstract：:Osteosarcoma (OS) is characterized by chromosomal instability and high copy number gene amplification. The breakage-fusion-bridge (BFB) cycle is a well-established mechanism of genome instability in tumors and in vitro models used to study the origins of complex chromosomal rearrangements and cancer genome amplificati...

journal_title：Chromosoma

authors： Selvarajah S,Yoshimoto M,Park PC,Maire G,Paderova J,Bayani J,Lim G,Al-Romaih K,Squire JA,Zielenska M

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The overall nuclease sensitivity and methylation of active and inactive X chromosomes of kangaroos were examined by in situ nick translation. Cultured fibroblasts of subspecies wallaroo-euro (Macropus robustus robustus; Macropus robustus erubescens) hybrids were used, enabling the paternally and maternally derived X c...

journal_title：Chromosoma

authors： Loebel DA,Johnston PG

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In situ hybridization of labeled DNA of four mobile dispersed genetic elements (mdg), isolated from D. melanogaster and C. virilis genomes, with polytene chromosomes of the larvae of several Drosophila species has been carried out. The data show that the mdg elements exhibit a high degree of species specificity. The s...

journal_title：Chromosoma

authors： Evgen'ev MB,Yenikolopov GN,Peunova NI,Ilyin YV

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The nuclear topography of pericentromeric DNA of chromosome 11 was analyzed in G0 (nonstimulated) and G1 [phytohemagglutinin (PHA) stimulated] human lymphocytes by confocal microscopy. In addition to the nuclear center, the centrosome was used as a second point of reference in the three-dimensional (3D) analysis. Peri...

journal_title：Chromosoma

authors： Hulspas R,Houtsmuller AB,Krijtenburg PJ,Bauman JG,Nanninga N

更新日期：1994-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the stability of the genomic distribution of six retrotransposon families in long-term and short-term cultures of Drosophila cells. In a subclone derived from Kc cells, no significant rearrangements were detected over an 8 year period. On the contrary, extensive reshuffling and amplification of transposon f...

journal_title：Chromosoma

authors： Junakovic N,Di Franco C,Best-Belpomme M,Echalier G

更新日期：1988-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Xenopus laevis eight tRNA genes are located in a 3.18 kb tandemly repeated unit. There are 150 copies of the unit at a single locus near the long arm telomere of one of the acrocentric chromosomes in the 14-17 group. Two additional classes of tRNA gene-containing repeats have been isolated (defined by clones p3.1 a...

journal_title：Chromosoma

authors： Narayanswami S,Doering JL,Fokta FJ,Rosenthal DS,Nguyen TN,Hamkalo BA

更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ribosomal DNA (rDNA) variation in the species Triturus vulgaris meridionalis (Amphibia, Urodela) is remarkable because of unusually high intraspecific variability in the number and distribution of ribosomal loci in the karyotype; in addition, portions of the intergenic spacer (IGS) are clustered at chromosomal loci wh...

journal_title：Chromosoma

authors： De Lucchini S,Andronico F,Nardi I

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy (FSHD) is caused by the shortening of a copy-number polymorphic array of 3.3 kb repeats (D4Z4) at one allelic 4q35.2 region. How this contraction of a subtelomeric tandem array causes FSHD is unknown but indirect evidence suggests that a short array has a cis effect on a distant ...

journal_title：Chromosoma

authors： Yang F,Shao C,Vedanarayanan V,Ehrlich M

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The single-stranded DNA binding protein RP-A is required in SV40 DNA in vitro replication. The RP-A purified from calf thymus contains 4 polypeptides with molecular weights 70kDa, 53kDa, 32kDa, and 14kDa. The p70 subunit and its proteolysed form p53 are recognized by the monoclonal antibody 70C (Kenny et al. (1990)) a...

journal_title：Chromosoma

authors： Nasheuer HP,von Winkler D,Schneider C,Dornreiter I,Gilbert I,Fanning E

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The eukaryotic genome can be roughly divided into euchromatin and heterochromatin domains that are structurally and functionally distinct. Heterochromatin is characterized by its high compaction that impedes DNA transactions such as gene transcription, replication, or recombination. Beyond its role in regulating DNA a...

journal_title：Chromosoma

authors： Nikolov I,Taddei A

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Regulation of DNA replication is critical, and loss of control can lead to DNA amplification. Naturally occurring, developmentally regulated DNA amplification occurs in the DNA puffs of the late larval salivary gland giant polytene chromosomes in the fungus fly, Sciara coprophila. The steroid hormone ecdysone induces ...

journal_title：Chromosoma

authors： Foulk MS,Waggener JM,Johnson JM,Yamamoto Y,Liew GM,Urnov FD,Young Y,Lee G,Smith HS,Gerbi SA

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Balbiani rings in the salivary gland polytene chromosomes of Chironomus tentans include the most active structural genes in this organ. Two of them (BR1 and BR2) contain repetitive sequences and are transcribed into giant RNA molecules. On Southern blots of restriction digests, we have identified fragments of geno...

journal_title：Chromosoma

authors： Degelmann A,Hollenberg CP

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Metaphase chromosomes prepared from colcemid-treated mouse L929 cells by non-ionic detergent lysis exhibit distinct heterochromatic centromere regions and associated kinetochores when viewed by whole mount electron microscopy. Deoxyribonuclease I treatment of these chromosomes results in the preferential digestion of ...

journal_title：Chromosoma

authors： Rattner JB,Krystal G,Hamkalo BA

更新日期：1978-04-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Almost half of the human genome consists of repetitive DNA. Understanding what role these elements have in setting up chromatin states that underlie gene and chromosome function in complex genomes is paramount. The function of some types of repetitive DNA is obvious by virtue of their location, such as the alphoid arr...

journal_title：Chromosoma

authors： Chadwick BP

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The kinetochore is a complex multiprotein structure located at centromeres and required for the proper segregation of chromosomes during mitosis and meiosis. An important role in kinetochore assembly and function plays the centromeric histone H3 variant (CENH3). Cell cycle stage of CENH3 deposition to centromeres vari...

journal_title：Chromosoma

authors： Lermontova I,Rutten T,Schubert I

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:P elements, a family of DNA transposons, are known as aggressive intruders into the hitherto uninfected gene pool of Drosophila melanogaster. Invading through horizontal transmission from an external source they managed to spread rapidly through natural populations within a few decades. Owing to their propensity for r...

journal_title：Chromosoma

authors： Pinsker W,Haring E,Hagemann S,Miller WJ

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ring chromosomes are of basic interest to the geneticist and cell biologist who study their behavior in meiotic and mitotic divisions. In addition, the mitotic instability associated with some ring-X chromosomes has proven useful in Drosophila as a means to produce gynandromorphs for developmental studies. We describe...

journal_title：Chromosoma

authors： Golic MM,Golic KG

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ribosomal DNA nontranscribed spacers in Drosophila virilis DNA have been examined in some detail by restriction site analysis of cloned segments of rDNA, nucleic acid hybridizations involving unfractionated rDNA, and base composition estimates. The overall G + C content of the spacer is 27--28%; this compares with 39%...

journal_title：Chromosoma

authors： Rae PM,Barnett T,Murtif VL

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The number of RNA molecules per cell (transcriptome size) is highly variable, differing among and within cell types depending on cell size, stage of the cell cycle, ploidy level, age, disease state, and growth condition. Such variation has been observed at the level of total RNA, ribosomal RNA, messenger RNA (mRNA), a...

journal_title：Chromosoma

authors： Coate JE,Doyle JJ

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The polypurine/polypyrimidine (PuPy) tracts present in the human genome are known to be scattered among and within chromosomes. In PuPy tract sequences, triplex formation occurs readily under physiological conditions, leaving single-stranded DNAs capable of hybridization with complementary single-stranded DNAs and RNA...

journal_title：Chromosoma

authors： Ohno M,Fukagawa T,Lee JS,Ikemura T

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is reported that chromatin can be prepared from highly purified polytene nuclei from the salivary glands of third instar larvae of Drosophila hydei; such chromatin differs from that of diploid nuclei mainly by deficiencies in certain nonhistone chromosomal proteins. It is suggested that these proteins are important...

journal_title：Chromosoma

authors： Elgin SC,Boyd JB

更新日期：1975-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The antigens in HeLa and Trichosia pubescens cells, recognized by sera from patients with rheumatic diseases containing anti-Ku antibodies, were compared by means of immunoprecipitation of labeled cell extracts. The autoantibodies present in the tested sera precipitate at least two polypeptides of approximately Mr = 7...

journal_title：Chromosoma

authors： Amabis JM,Amabis DC,Kaburaki J,Stollar BD

更新日期：1990-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:By taking advantage of the fact that fluorescent light (FL) induces strand breaks only in bromodeoxyuridine(BrdUy-substituted DNA, and that those breaks eventually lead to the formation of sister chromatid exchanges (SCEs), the response of SCEs to FL was studied carefully in Chinese hamster chromosomes in which, out o...

journal_title：Chromosoma

authors： Kato H

更新日期：1977-02-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The sub-division of S-phase in Syrian hamsters, on the basis of Brd/U/Hoechst 33258/Giemsa banding, has allowed a quantitative comparison of the replication of individual chromosome bands within defined subphases of S. This analysis has shown that in hamsters, as has been reported in humans, there are distinct pattern...

journal_title：Chromosoma

authors： Cawood AH

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a novel rearranged human Y chromosome consisting of an inverted duplication of the long arm heterochromatin and a small amount of euchromatin: rea(Y)(qter-q11.2::q11.2-qter). The normal centromere has been deleted and a neocentromere containing CENP-A, -C, -E and Mad2 but not CENP-B has formed close to the...

journal_title：Chromosoma

authors： Floridia G,Gimelli G,Zuffardi O,Earnshaw WC,Warburton PE,Tyler-Smith C

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Macronuclear DNA s from three related hypotrichous ciliated protozoans were compared by agarose gel electrophoresis. Each was shown to be composed of DNA duplexes that yielded a unique pattern of bands overlying a continuous distribution of DNA sizes ranging from approximately 400 bp to approximately 20,000 bp. By EM,...

journal_title：Chromosoma

authors： Swanton MT,Heumann JM,Prescott DM

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Membrane-free folded chromosomes were purified from log-phase cultures of Escherichia coli and prepared for electron microscopy by aqueous (Kleinschmidt and Zahn) spreading. The appearance of the chromosomes depended on the salt concentrations in spreading. At certain salt concentration, the chromosomes resembled rose...

journal_title：Chromosoma

authors： Kavenoff R,Bowen BC

更新日期：1976-12-16 00:00:00

abstract：:At meiotic prophase the chromatin becomes arranged in loops on newly formed chromosome cores. The cores of homologous chromosomes become aligned in parallel and thus form the synaptonemal complex (SC), a structure found in the meiocytes of nearly all recombinationally competent, sexually reproducing organisms. We repo...

journal_title：Chromosoma

authors： Moens PB,Earnshaw WC

更新日期：1989-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies of the Robertsonian polymorphism in the Atlantic dog-whelk, Nucella lapillus (2n = 26-36), have been limited by the inability to identify unequivocally individual chromosomes in the karyotype. This species, as with many other marine invertebrates, has proven largely refractory to the standard (mammali...

journal_title：Chromosoma

authors： Pascoe PL,Patton SJ,Critcher R,Dixon DR

更新日期：1996-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The genus Caledia acontains two species. C. species nova 1 is restricted to the Oriomo Plateau of S. W. Papua and has a complement of twelve telocentric chromosomes. The second species C. captiva has a much wider distribution pattern--from S.W. Papua in the North, down the entire Eastern seaboard of Australia to South...

journal_title：Chromosoma

authors： Shaw DD

更新日期：1976-02-23 00:00:00