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  1. African trypanosomes belong to a eukaryotic lineage which displays many unusual genetic features. The mechanisms of chromosome segregation in these diploid protozoan parasites are poorly understood. Centromere...

    Authors: Maria C Echeverry, Christopher Bot, Samson O Obado, Martin C Taylor and John M Kelly
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2012 13:29
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  3. On porcine chromosome 7, the region surrounding the Major Histocompatibility Complex (MHC) contains several Quantitative Trait Loci (QTL) influencing many traits including growth, back fat thickness and carcas...

    Authors: Julie Demars, Juliette Riquet, Katia Feve, Mathieu Gautier, Mireille Morisson, Olivier Demeure, Christine Renard, Patrick Chardon and Denis Milan
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2006 7:13
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  4. Fully isogenic lines in fish can be developed using “mitotic” gynogenesis (suppression of first zygotic mitosis following inactivation of the sperm genome). However, genome-wide verification of the steps in th...

    Authors: Münevver Oral, Julie Colléter, Michaël Bekaert, John B Taggart, Christos Palaiokostas, Brendan J. McAndrew, Marc Vandeputte, Béatrice Chatain, Heiner Kuhl, Richard Reinhardt, Stefano Peruzzi and David J Penman
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2017 18:449
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  5. The mode of evolution of the highly homogeneous Higher-Order-Repeat-containing alpha satellite arrays is still subject to discussion. This is also true of the CENP-A associated repeats where the centromere is ...

    Authors: Nathalie Pironon, Jacques Puechberty and Gérard Roizès
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2010 11:195
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  6. The turkey genome physical map was constructed based on 74,013 BAC fingerprints (11.9 × ... Mb. All but four of the turkey chromosomes were spanned on this map by three or fewer contigs, with 14 chromosomes spann...

    Authors: Yang Zhang, Xiaojun Zhang, Thomas H O'Hare, William S Payne, Jennifer J Dong, Chantel F Scheuring, Meiping Zhang, James J Huang, Mi-Kyung Lee, Mary E Delany, Hong-Bin Zhang and Jerry B Dodgson
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2011 12:447
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  7. A complete genome sequence is an essential tool for the genetic improvement of wheat. Because the wheat genome is large, highly repetitive and complex due to its allohexaploid nature, the International Wheat G...

    Authors: Fuminori Kobayashi, Jianzhong Wu, Hiroyuki Kanamori, Tsuyoshi Tanaka, Satoshi Katagiri, Wataru Karasawa, Satoko Kaneko, Shota Watanabe, Toyotaka Sakaguchi, Yumiko Hanawa, Hiroko Fujisawa, Kanako Kurita, Chikako Abe, Julio C. M. Iehisa, Ryoko Ohno, Jan Šafář…
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:595
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  8. Regulatory function of small non-coding RNAs (sRNA) in response to environmental and developmental cues has been established. Additionally, sRNA, also plays an important role in maintaining the heterochromatin...

    Authors: Rishi Aryal, Guru Jagadeeswaran, Yun Zheng, Qingyi Yu, Ramanjulu Sunkar and Ray Ming
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:20
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  9. The limited (2X) coverage of the tammar wallaby (Macropus eugenii) genome sequence dataset currently presents a challenge for assembly and anchoring onto chromosomes. To provide a framework for this assembly, it ...

    Authors: Chenwei Wang, Janine E Deakin, Willem Rens, Kyall R Zenger, Katherine Belov, Jennifer A Marshall Graves and Frank W Nicholas
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2011 12:422
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  10. Introgressive hybridization is an important evolutionary process that can lead to the creation of novel genome structures and thus potentially new genetic variation for selection to act upon. On the other hand...

    Authors: Carl O Ostberg, Lorenz Hauser, Victoria L Pritchard, John C Garza and Kerry A Naish
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2013 14:570
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  11. Because of its size, allohexaploid nature and high repeat content, the wheat genome has always been perceived as too complex for efficient molecular studies. We recently constructed the first physical map of a...

    Authors: Camille Rustenholz, Pete E Hedley, Jenny Morris, Frédéric Choulet, Catherine Feuillet, Robbie Waugh and Etienne Paux
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2010 11:714
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  12. The development of large genomic resources has become a prerequisite to elucidate the wide-scale evolution of genomes and the molecular basis of complex traits. Linkage maps represent a first level of integrat...

    Authors: René Guyomard, Stéphane Mauger, Kamila Tabet-Canale, Sylvain Martineau, Carine Genet, Francine Krieg and Edwige Quillet
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2006 7:302
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  13. The zebrafish (Danio rerio) is an important vertebrate model organism system for biomedical research. The syntenic conservation between the zebrafish and human genome allows one to investigate the function of hum...

    Authors: Jennifer L Freeman, Adeola Adeniyi, Ruby Banerjee, Stephanie Dallaire, Sean F Maguire, Jianxiang Chi, Bee Ling Ng, Cinthya Zepeda, Carol E Scott, Sean Humphray, Jane Rogers, Yi Zhou, Leonard I Zon, Nigel P Carter, Fengtang Yang and Charles Lee
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2007 8:195
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  14. Comparative genomics is a powerful means of establishing inter-specific relationships between gene function/location and allows insight into genomic rearrangements, conservation and evolutionary phylogeny. The...

    Authors: Darren K Griffin, Lindsay B Robertson, Helen G Tempest, Alain Vignal, Valérie Fillon, Richard PMA Crooijmans, Martien AM Groenen, Svetlana Deryusheva, Elena Gaginskaya, Wilfrid Carré, David Waddington, Richard Talbot, Martin Völker, Julio S Masabanda and Dave W Burt
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2008 9:168
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  15. Papaya is a major fruit crop in tropical and subtropical regions worldwide. It is trioecious with three sex forms: male, female, and hermaphrodite. Sex determination is controlled by a pair of nascent sex chro...

    Authors: Jong-Kuk Na, Jianping Wang, Jan E Murray, Andrea R Gschwend, Wenli Zhang, Qingyi Yu, Rafael Navajas‒ Pérez, F Alex Feltus, Cuixia Chen, Zdenek Kubat, Paul H Moore, Jiming Jiang, Andrew H Paterson and Ray Ming
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2012 13:176
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  16. In mammalian meiotic prophase, homologous chromosome recognition is aided by formation and repair of programmed DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs). Subsequently, stable associations form through homologous chromo...

    Authors: Federica Federici, Eskeatnaf Mulugeta, Sam Schoenmakers, Evelyne Wassenaar, Jos W Hoogerbrugge, Godfried W van der Heijden, Wiggert A van Cappellen, Johan A Slotman, Wilfred FJ van IJcken, Joop SE Laven, J Anton Grootegoed and Willy M Baarends
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:291
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  17. The uneven distribution of recombination across the length of chromosomes results in inaccurate estimates of genetic to physical distances. In wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) chromosome 3B, it has been estimated tha...

    Authors: Ajay Kumar, Filippo M Bassi, Etienne Paux, Omar Al-Azzam, Monika Michalak de Jimenez, Anne M Denton, Yong Q Gu, Eric Huttner, Andrzej Kilian, Sachin Kumar, Aakash Goyal, Muhammad J Iqbal, Vijay K Tiwari, Munevver Dogramaci, Harindra S Balyan, Harcharan S Dhaliwal…
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2012 13:339
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  19. Genome assembly into chromosomes facilitates several analyses including cytogenetics, genomics and phylogenetics. Despite rapid development in bioinformatics, however, assembly beyond scaffolds remains challen...

    Authors: William Poisson, Julien Prunier, Alexandra Carrier, Isabelle Gilbert, Gabriela Mastromonaco, Vicky Albert, Joëlle Taillon, Vincent Bourret, Arnaud Droit, Steeve D. Côté and Claude Robert
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2023 24:142
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  20. Genomic sequence assemblies are key tools for a broad range of gene function and evolutionary studies. The diploid amphibian Xenopus tropicalis plays a pivotal role in these fields due to its combination of exper...

    Authors: Eva Seifertova, Lyle B Zimmerman, Michael J Gilchrist, Jaroslav Macha, Svatava Kubickova, Halina Cernohorska, Vojtech Zarsky, Nick DL Owens, Abdul K Sesay, Tereza Tlapakova and Vladimir Krylov
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2013 14:357
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  21. Variations in recombination fraction (θ) among chromosomal regions, individuals and families have been observed and have an important impact on quantitative trait loci (QTL) mapping studies. Such variations on...

    Authors: Junwu Ma, Nathalie Iannuccelli, Yanyu Duan, Weibing Huang, Beili Guo, Juliette Riquet, Lusheng Huang and Denis Milan
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2010 11:159
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  23. Centromeres play a crucial and conserved role in cell division, although their composition and evolutionary history in green algae, the evolutionary ancestors of land plants, remains largely unknown.

    Authors: Bo Wang, Yanyan Jia, Ningxin Dang, Jie Yu, Stephen J. Bush, Shenghan Gao, Wenxi He, Sirui Wang, Hongtao Guo, Xiaofei Yang, Weimin Ma and Kai Ye
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2024 25:356
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  24. The ability to generate long sequencing reads and access long-range linkage information is revolutionizing the quality and completeness of genome assemblies. Here we use a hybrid approach that combines data fr...

    Authors: Andreas Wallberg, Ignas Bunikis, Olga Vinnere Pettersson, Mai-Britt Mosbech, Anna K. Childers, Jay D. Evans, Alexander S. Mikheyev, Hugh M. Robertson, Gene E. Robinson and Matthew T. Webster
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2019 20:275
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  25. Accurate genome assembly and gene model annotation are critical for comparative species and gene functional analyses. Here we present the completed genome sequence and annotation of the reference strain PH-1 of F...

    Authors: Robert King, Martin Urban, Michael C. U. Hammond-Kosack, Keywan Hassani-Pak and Kim E. Hammond-Kosack
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:544
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  26. Crossing over assures the correct segregation of the homologous chromosomes to both poles of the dividing meiocyte. This exchange of DNA creates new allelic combinations thus increasing the genetic variation p...

    Authors: Antoine Ederveen, Yuching Lai, Marc A van Driel, Tom Gerats and Janny L Peters
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:89
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  27. Karyotype abnormalities are frequent in immortalized continuous cell lines either transformed or derived from primary tumors. Chromosomal rearrangements can cause dramatic changes in gene expression and affect...

    Authors: A. Maslova, V. Plotnikov, M. Nuriddinov, M. Gridina, V. Fishman and A. Krasikova
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2023 24:66
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  28. Large-scale genome rearrangements brought about by chromosome breaks underlie numerous inherited diseases, initiate or promote many cancers and are also associated with karyotype diversification during species...

    Authors: Mark S Longo, Dawn M Carone, Eric D Green, Michael J O'Neill and Rachel J O'Neill
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2009 10:334
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  29. Due to its overarching role in genome function, sequence-dependent DNA curvature continues to attract great attention. The DNA double helix is not a rigid cylinder, but presents both curvature and flexibility ...

    Authors: Ali Masoudi-Nejad, Sara Movahedi and Ruy Jáuregui
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2011 12:214
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  30. Whole genome radiation hybrid (WG-RH) maps serve as "scaffolds" to significantly improve the orientation of small bacterial artificial chromosome (BAC) contigs, order genes within the contigs and assist assemb...

    Authors: Jian-Gang Ma, Hiroshi Yasue, Katie E Eyer, Hideki Hiraiwa, Takeshi Shimogiri, Stacey N Meyers, Jonathan E Beever, Lawrence B Schook, Craig W Beattie and Wan-Sheng Liu
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2009 10:211
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  31. The X and Y sex chromosomes are conspicuous features of placental mammal genomes. Mammalian sex chromosomes arose from an ordinary pair of autosomes after the proto-Y acquired a male-determining gene and degen...

    Authors: Jaroslav Mácha, Radka Teichmanová, Amy K Sater, Dan E Wells, Tereza Tlapáková, Lyle B Zimmerman and Vladimír Krylov
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2012 13:315
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  32. Whole genome re-sequencing provides powerful data for population genomic studies, allowing robust inferences of population structure, gene flow and evolutionary history. For the major malaria vector in Africa, An...

    Authors: Melina Campos, Luisa D. P. Rona, Katie Willis, George K. Christophides and Robert M. MacCallum
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2021 22:422
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  33. Small RNAs have proven to be essential regulatory molecules encoded within eukaryotic genomes. These short RNAs participate in a diverse array of cellular processes including gene regulation, chromatin dynamic...

    Authors: James Lindsay, Dawn M Carone, Judy Brown, Laura Hall, Sohaib Qureshi, Sarah E Mitchell, Nicholas Jannetty, Greg Hannon, Marilyn Renfree, Andrew Pask, Michael O’Neill and Rachel O’Neill
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2012 13:559
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  34. Heterochromatin plays an important role in chromosome function and gene regulation. Despite the availability of polytene chromosomes and genome sequence, the heterochromatin of the major malaria vector Anopheles ...

    Authors: Maria V Sharakhova, Phillip George, Irina V Brusentsova, Scotland C Leman, Jeffrey A Bailey, Christopher D Smith and Igor V Sharakhov
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2010 11:459
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  35. By reshuffling genomes, structural genomic reorganizations provide genetic variation on which natural selection can work. Understanding the mechanisms underlying this process has been a long-standing question ...

    Authors: Anna Ullastres, Marta Farré, Laia Capilla and Aurora Ruiz-Herrera
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:530
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  36. Trypanosomatids exhibit a unique gene organization into large directional gene clusters (DGCs) in opposite directions. The transcription "strand switch region" (SSR) separating the two large DGCs that constitu...

    Authors: Jacques Puechberty, Christine Blaineau, Sabrina Meghamla, Lucien Crobu, Michel Pagès and Patrick Bastien
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2007 8:57
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  37. The resolution of radiation hybrid (RH) maps is intermediate between that of the genetic and BAC (Bacterial Artificial Chromosome) contig maps. Moreover, once framework RH maps of a genome have been constructe...

    Authors: Frédérique Pitel, Behnam Abasht, Mireille Morisson, Richard PMA Crooijmans, Florence Vignoles, Sophie Leroux, Katia Feve, Suzanne Bardes, Denis Milan, Sandrine Lagarrigue, Martien AM Groenen, Madeleine Douaire and Alain Vignal
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2004 5:66
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  38. Prader-Willi syndrome (PWS) is a neurobehavioral disorder characterized by neonatal hypotonia, childhood obesity, dysmorphic features, hypogonadism, mental retardation, and behavioral problems. Although PWS is...

    Authors: Yong-hui Jiang, Kekio Wauki, Qian Liu, Jan Bressler, Yanzhen Pan, Catherine D Kashork, Lisa G Shaffer and Arthur L Beaudet
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2008 9:50
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  39. The chicken karyotype is composed of 39 chromosome pairs, of which 9 still remain totally absent from the current genome sequence assembly, despite international efforts towards complete coverage. Some others ...

    Authors: Romain Solinhac, Sophie Leroux, Svetlana Galkina, Olympe Chazara, Katia Feve, Florence Vignoles, Mireille Morisson, Svetlana Derjusheva, Bertrand Bed'hom, Alain Vignal, Valérie Fillon and Frédérique Pitel
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2010 11:616
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  40. Chromosome band 10q24 is a gene-rich domain and host to a number of cancer, developmental, and neurological genes. Recurring translocations, deletions and mutations involving this chromosome band have been obs...

    Authors: Sheryl M Gough, Margaret McDonald, Xiao-Ning Chen, Julie R Korenberg, Antonino Neri, Tomas Kahn, Michael R Eccles and Christine M Morris
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2003 4:9
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  41. Eutrema salsugineum (2n = 14), a halophyte in the family Brassicaceae, is an attractive model to study abiotic stress tolerance in plants. Two versions of E. salsugineum genomes that previously reported were base...

    Authors: Meng Xiao, Guoqian Hao, Xinyi Guo, Landi Feng, Hao Lin, Wenjie Yang, Yanyu Chen, Kexin Zhao, Ling Xiang, Xinyao Jiang, Dong Mei and Quanjun Hu
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2023 24:174
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  42. The genome of the melon (Cucumis melo L.) double-haploid line DHL92 was recently sequenced, with 87.5 and 80.8% of the scaffold assembly anchored and oriented to the 12 linkage groups, respectively. However, insu...

    Authors: Jason M Argyris, Aurora Ruiz-Herrera, Pablo Madriz-Masis, Walter Sanseverino, Jordi Morata, Marta Pujol, Sebastián E Ramos-Onsins and Jordi Garcia-Mas
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:4
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  43. In flowering plants it has been shown that de novo genome assemblies of different species and genera show a significant drop in the proportion of alignable sequence. Within a plant species, however, it is assumed...

    Authors: Jan M de Boer, Erwin Datema, Xiaomin Tang, Theo J A Borm, Erin H Bakker, Herman J van Eck, Roeland C H J van Ham, Hans de Jong, Richard G F Visser and Christian W B Bachem
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:374
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  44. The availability of the peach genome sequence has fostered relevant research in peach and related Prunus species enabling the identification of genes underlying important horticultural traits as well as the devel...

    Authors: Ignazio Verde, Jerry Jenkins, Luca Dondini, Sabrina Micali, Giulia Pagliarani, Elisa Vendramin, Roberta Paris, Valeria Aramini, Laura Gazza, Laura Rossini, Daniele Bassi, Michela Troggio, Shengqiang Shu, Jane Grimwood, Stefano Tartarini, Maria Teresa Dettori…
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2017 18:225
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  45. Coix, Sorghum and Zea are closely related plant genera in the subtribe Maydeae. Coix comprises 9–11 species with different ploidy levels (2n = 10, 20, 30, and 40). The exclusively cultivated C. lacryma-jobi L. (2...

    Authors: Zexi Cai, Huijun Liu, Qunyan He, Mingwei Pu, Jian Chen, Jinsheng Lai, Xuexian Li and Weiwei Jin
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:1025
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  46. We identified and characterized a region present in most Toxoplasma assembled chromosomes. Based on their location, sequence features, and nucleosomal markers we...T. gondii.... The identified regions display a u...

    Authors: María C Dalmasso, Santiago J Carmona, Sergio O Angel and Fernán Agüero
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:21
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  47. The ~17 Gb hexaploid bread wheat genome is a high priority and a major technical challenge for genomic studies. In particular, the D sub-genome is relatively lacking in genetic diversity, making it both diffic...

    Authors: Stuart J Lucas, Bala Anı Akpınar, Hana Šimková, Marie Kubaláková, Jaroslav Doležel and Hikmet Budak
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:1080
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  48. Functional and morphological studies of tandem DNA repeats, that combine high portion of most genomes, are mostly limited due to the incomplete characterization of these genome elements. We report here a genom...

    Authors: Aleksey S Komissarov, Ekaterina V Gavrilova, Sergey Ju Demin, Alexander M Ishov and Olga I Podgornaya
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2011 12:531
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  49. Unlike the chromosome constitution of most snakes (2n=36), the cobra karyotype shows a diploid chromosome number of 38 with a highly heterochromatic W chromosome and a large morphologically different chromosom...

    Authors: Worapong Singchat, Rebecca E. O’Connor, Panupong Tawichasri, Aorarat Suntronpong, Siwapech Sillapaprayoon, Sunutcha Suntrarachun, Narongrit Muangmai, Sudarath Baicharoen, Surin Peyachoknagul, Lawan Chanhome, Darren Griffin and Kornsorn Srikulnath
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2018 19:939
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  50. The generation of BAC/PAC contigs in targeted genome regions is a powerful method to establish high-resolution physical maps. In domestic animal species the generation of such contigs is typically initiated wi...

    Authors: Flávia Martins-Wess, Denis Milan, Cord Drögemüller, Rodja Voβ-Nemitz, Bertram Brenig, Annie Robic, Martine Yerle and Tosso Leeb
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2003 4:20
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