ABC Fax + 41 61 306 12 34 E-mail [email protected] www.karger.com © 2003 S. Karger AG, Basel 0301–0171/03/1032–0128$19.50/0 Accessible online at: www.karger.com/cgr Abstract. The karyotypes of three species of sphaerodactyl gekkonid lizards are described after conventional and differential staining. Karyotypes of Gonatodes humeralis and G. hasemani are formed by a gradual series of 32 acrocentri...

The genus Xenopus represents important model organisms in the field of developmental biology and chromosomal evolution. Developmental processes are tightly coupled with the analysis of gene function via genetic linkage and mapping. Cytogenetic techniques such as chromosome banding or FISH are essential tools for the determination of gene position and subsequently for the construction of linkage...

A 74-year-old man with colorectal carcinoma treated with surgery and adjuvant chemotherapy with oxaliplatin and fluorouracil 6 years previously was admitted with fever and suspicion of sepsis. Laboratory tests showed hemoglobin 137 g/L, mean corpuscular volume 94.7 fL, platelets 177 109/L, leukocytes 2.0 109/L, and neutrophils 0.8 109/L. Within 4 days his condition deteriorated rapidly with pro...

Soybean [Glycine max (L.) Merr.], an economically important dicot legume, is a member of the family Fabaceae and belongs to the genus Glycine Willd. Based on classical and molecular taxonomy, the genus Glycine has been divided into two subgenera; the subgenus Soja (Moench) F.J. Hermann includes soybean and its wild annual progenitor G. soja Sieb. & Zucc. Both species contain 2n = 40 chromosomes...

ABC Fax + 41 61 306 12 34 E-mail [email protected] www.karger.com © 2005 S. Karger AG, Basel 0301–0171/05/1084–0342$22.00/0 Accessible online at: www.karger.com/cgr Abstract. In an ongoing study human X chromosomal mental retardation genes (MRX) were mapped in the chicken genome. Up to now the homologs of 13 genes were localized by FISH techniques. Four genes from HSAXp (TM4SF2, RSK2/ RPS6KA3, N...

ABC Fax + 41 61 306 12 34 E-mail [email protected] www.karger.com © 2002 S. Karger AG, Basel 0301–0171/02/0981–0078$18.50/0 Accessible online at: www.karger.com/cgr Abstract. In higher eukaryotes, the 5S ribosomal DNA (5S rDNA) is organized in tandem arrays with repeat units composed of a coding region and a non-transcribed spacer sequence (NTS). These tandem arrays can be found on either one or...