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An improved characterization of cattle chromosomes by means of high-resolution G- and R-band comparison
1Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Istituto di ricerche sull'Adattamento dei Bovini e dei Bufali all'Ambiente del Mezzogiorno, Naples, Italy.
The Journal of Heredity
|January 1, 1990
Abstract:
An improved characterization of cattle chromosomes was obtained by means of high-resolution G- and R-band comparison. Models of G- and R-banded karyotypes that were arranged according to the Reading system and the previous RBA-banded karyotype were obtained at the 475 band level by using early- and late-BrdU incorporation in synchronized cell cultures. As in human chromosomes, only one common G- and R-banding nomenclature is proposed.
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