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

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Figure 3.
Figure 3.

Organization of orthologs among human and chicken chromosomes and Ambystoma mexicanum/A. tigrinum and X. tropicalis linkage maps. The diagram shows that chicken conserved segments 66, 67, and 68 likely form a large synteny group, excepting the location of two genes (RAD23B and CHDH) that map to different chicken chromosomes.

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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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