The past decade has witnessed an explosion of genome sequencing and mapping in
evolutionary diverse species. While full genome sequencing of mammals is rapidly …

Although chromosome rearrangements (CRs) are central to studies of genome evolution,
our understanding of the evolutionary consequences of the early stages of karyotypic …

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 fossil record of the Hippopotamidae can shed light on three major issues in mammalian
evolution. First, as the Hippopotamidae are the extant sister group of Cetacea, gaining a …

Available data on karyotypes of the mammals from Turkey and neighbouring regions (the
Balkans, the Caucasus, and the Middle East) were summarized and reviewed in respect of …

Abstract The vole Alexandromysevoronensis (Kovalskaya et Sokolov, 1980) with its two
chromosomal races,“Evoron”(2n= 38–41, NF= 54–59) and “Argi”(2n= 34, 36, 37, NF= 51 …

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 …

Eukaryotic genomes contain far more DNA than needed for coding proteins. Some of these
additional DNA sequences comprise non-coding repetitive DNA sequences, mostly satellite …

Chromosomal evolution in carnivores has been revisited extensively using cross-species
chromosome painting. Painting probes derived from flow-sorted chromosomes of the …