African Clawed Frog Chromosomes (IMAGE)

Hokkaido University

African Clawed Frog Chromosomes

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African clawed frog chromosomes. "Fossil" DNA sequences found only in the S subgenome (chromosomes) of Xenopus laevis emit a red glow employing the FISH method. The nine S chromosomes here clearly possess a larger number of red regions, believed to have derived from ancestral species S. (Chromosome 9, at bottom right, is represented as "9_10," as it corresponds to the fusion of ancestral chromosomes corresponding to chromosomes 9 and 10 in Xenopus tropicalis).

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Copyright: 2016 Yoshinobu Uno

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