Cytogenetic Analysis of the Fish Genus Carassius Indicates Divergence, Fission, and Segmental Duplication as Drivers of Tandem Repeat and Microchromosome Evolution
Nicola R Fornaini,
Halina Černohorská,
Lívia do Vale Martins
et al.
Abstract:Fishes of the genus Carassius are useful experimental vertebrate models for study of evolutionary biology and cytogenetics. Carassius demonstrates diverse biological characteristics, such as variation in ploidy levels and chromosome numbers, and presence of microchromosomes. Carassius polyploids with ≥ 150 chromosomes have microchromosomes, but their origin, especially in European populations, is unknown. We used cytogenetics to study evolution of tandem repeats (U1 and U2 small nuclear DNAs and H3 histone) an… Show more
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