Are molecular cytogenetics and bioinformatics suggesting diverging models of ancestral mammalian genomes?

Lutz Froenicke, Montserrat Garcia Caldés, Alexander Graphodatsky, Stefan Müller, Leslie A. Lyons, Terence J. Robinson, Marianne Volleth, Fengtang Yang, and Johannes Wienberg Department of Population Health & Reproduction, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California Davis, Davis, California 95616, USA; Departament de Biologia Cellular, Fisiologia i Immunologia, Facultat de Medicina, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, 08193, Spain; ASG–Institute of Cytology and Genetics, SB Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, 630090, Russia; Department Biology II, Human Genetics, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Martinsried, 82152, Germany; Evolutionary Genomics Group, Department of Botany & Zoology, University of Stellenbosch, 7602, South Africa; Department of Human Genetics, Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg, Magdeburg, 39120, Germany; The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SA, United Kingdom; Institute of Human Genetics, GSF-National Research Center for Environment and Health, Neuherberg, 85764, Germany