Origin of amphibian and avian chromosomes by fission, fusion, and retention of ancestral chromosomes

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Figure 1.
Figure 1.

Organization of orthologs among human and chicken chromosomes and Ambystoma mexicanum/A. tigrinum and Xenopus linkage maps. This diagram shows chromosomal rearrangements in the human genome (chromosomes 5, 9, 18) and conservation of genes demarking Ambystoma LG8, chicken Z, and X. tropicalis LG1.

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  1. Published in Advance April 11, 2011, doi: 10.1101/gr.116491.110 Genome Res. 21: 1306-1312

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