The study of chromosome evolution is undergoing a resurgence of interest owing to
advances in DNA sequencing technology that facilitate the production of chromosome-scale …

Decrypting the rearrangements that drive mammalian chromosome evolution is critical to
understanding the molecular bases of speciation, adaptation, and disease susceptibility …

Cetartiodactyla comprises Artiodactyla (even-toed ungulates) and Cetacea (whales,
dolphins and porpoises). Artiodactyla is a large taxon represented by about 200 living …

The role of chromosome rearrangements in driving evolution has been a long-standing
question of evolutionary biology. Here we focused on ruminants as a model to assess how …

The Cervidae family comprises more than fifty species divided into three subfamilies:
Capreolinae, Cervinae and Hydropotinae. A characteristic attribute for the species included …

The phenomenon of a remarkable conservation of the X chromosome in eutherian mammals
has been first described by Susumu Ohno in 1964. A notable exception is the cetartiodactyl …

Hepsetidae is a small fish family with only the genus Hepsetus, with six described species
distributed throughout the South, Central and Western regions of Africa, showing a close …

The family Cervidae is the second most diverse in the infraorder Pecora and is characterized
by variability in the diploid chromosome numbers among species. X chromosomes in …

Abstract Notopteridae (Teleostei, Osteoglossiformes) represents an old fish lineage with ten
currently recognized species distributed in African and Southeastern Asian rivers. Their …

The mitochondrial genome of Indian mouse deer (Moschiola indica) was sequenced,
assembled and characterized for the first time using 22 pairs of polymerase chain reaction …