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This section publishes high-quality and innovative research generated from molecular cytogenetic studies of animals, plants or, more generally, in eukaryotes. Also, each kind of evolutionary aspect is welcome in this section, including cross-species-FISH studies using, for example, human probes in other species. Also, basic research on karyotype structure in some poorly studied species should be submitted.

  1. Partial amphiploids created by crossing octoploid tritelytrigia(2n = 8× = 56, AABBDDEE) and Thinopyrum intermedium (2n = 6× = 42, StStJJJSJS) are important intermediates in wheat breeding because of their resista...

    Authors: Hui Wang, Shuwei Cheng, Yue Shi, Shuxin Zhang, Wei Yan, Weifu Song, Xuefeng Yang, Qingjie Song, Bo Jang, Xiaoyue Qi, Xinling Li, Bernd Friebe and Yanming Zhang

    Citation: Molecular Cytogenetics 2021 14:15

    Content type: Research

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  2. Poa L. is a large genus of grass in Gramineae, among which P. pratensis is widely cultivated as turf and forage. Satellite DNA is the main components of the plant genome. Information of satellites will helpful fo...

    Authors: Linna Wei, Bo Liu, Chunping Zhang, Yang Yu, Xiaoxia Yang, Quanwen Dou and Quanmin Dong

    Citation: Molecular Cytogenetics 2020 13:47

    Content type: Research

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  3. The epigenetic regulation of genome is crucial for implementation of the genetic program of ontogenesis through establishing and maintaining differential gene expression. Thus mapping of various epigenetic mod...

    Authors: Tatiana Kulikova, Anna Surkova, Anna Zlotina and Alla Krasikova

    Citation: Molecular Cytogenetics 2020 13:32

    Content type: Research

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  4. The annual allotetraploid species Aegilops geniculata harbors a number of traits relevant for wheat improvement. An effective cytogenetic method has yet to be developed to distinguish between each of its 14 chrom...

    Authors: Yingjin Yi, Ke Zheng, Shunzong Ning, Laibin Zhao, Kai Xu, Ming Hao, Lianquan Zhang, Zhongwei Yuan and Dengcai Liu

    Citation: Molecular Cytogenetics 2019 12:15

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  5. Polyploidy, although still poorly explored, represents an important evolutionary event in several cyprinid clades. Herein, Catlocarpio siamensis and Probarbus jullieni - representatives of the paleotetraploid tri...

    Authors: Pasakorn Saenjundaeng, Marcelo de Bello Cioffi, Ezequiel Aguiar de Oliveira, Alongklod Tanomtong, Weerayuth Supiwong, Sumalee Phimphan, Maria João Collares-Pereira, Alexandr Sember, Luiz Antonio Carlos Bertollo, Thomas Liehr, Cassia Fernanda Yano, Terumi Hatanaka and Petr Ráb

    Citation: Molecular Cytogenetics 2018 11:51

    Content type: Research

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  6. Interspecific hybridization is an effective strategy for germplasm innovation in sugarcane. Nobilization refers to the breeding theory of development and utilization of wild germplasm. Saccharum spontaneum is the...

    Authors: Fan Yu, Ping Wang, Xueting Li, Yongji Huang, Qinnan Wang, Ling Luo, Yanfen Jing, Xinlong Liu, Zuhu Deng, Jiayun Wu, Yongqing Yang, Rukai Chen, Muqing Zhang and Liangnian Xu

    Citation: Molecular Cytogenetics 2018 11:35

    Content type: Research

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  7. Thinopyrum ponticum (2n = 10× = 70, JSJSJSJSJJJJJJ) is an important wild perennial Triticeae species that has a unique gene pool with many desirable traits for common wheat. The partial amphiploids derived from w...

    Authors: Yanru Pei, Yu Cui, Yanping Zhang, Honggang Wang, Yinguang Bao and Xingfeng Li

    Citation: Molecular Cytogenetics 2018 11:27

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  8. The low-numbered 14-chromosome karyotype of marsupials has falsified the fusion hypothesis claiming ancestrality from a 22-chromosome karyotype. Since the 14-chromosome condition of the relict Dromiciops gliroide...

    Authors: Elkin Y. Suárez-Villota, Ronie E. Haro, Rodrigo A. Vargas and Milton H. Gallardo

    Citation: Molecular Cytogenetics 2016 9:59

    Content type: Short report

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  9. During the final stages of oocyte development, all chromosomes join in a limited nuclear volume for the final formation of a single complex chromatin structure – the karyosphere. In the majority of mammalian s...

    Authors: Galina N. Pochukalina, Nadya V. Ilicheva, Olga I. Podgornaya and Alexey P. Voronin

    Citation: Molecular Cytogenetics 2016 9:50

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  10. Preparation of good chromosome spreads without cytoplasmic contamination is the crucial step in cytogenetic mapping. To date, cytogenetic research in the Orchidaceae family has been carried out solely on mitot...

    Authors: Yi-Tzu Kuo, Hui-Lan Hsu, Chih-Hsin Yeh and Song-Bin Chang

    Citation: Molecular Cytogenetics 2016 9:44

    Content type: Methodology

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  11. Trematodes have a complex life cycle with animal host changes and alternation of parthenogenetic and hermaphrodite generations. The parthenogenetic generation of the worm (rediae) from the first intermediate h...

    Authors: Anna I. Solovyeva, Vera N. Stefanova, Olga I. Podgornaya and Serghei Iu. Demin

    Citation: Molecular Cytogenetics 2016 9:34

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  12. The centromere is the specialized locus required for correct chromosome segregation during cell division. The DNA of most eukaryotic centromeres is composed of extended arrays of tandem repeats (satellite DNA)...

    Authors: Federico Cerutti, Riccardo Gamba, Alice Mazzagatti, Francesca M. Piras, Eleonora Cappelletti, Elisa Belloni, Solomon G. Nergadze, Elena Raimondi and Elena Giulotto

    Citation: Molecular Cytogenetics 2016 9:35

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  13. Dissecting genome organization is indispensable for further functional and applied studies. As genome sequences data shown, cotton genomes contain more than 60 % repetitive sequences, so study on repetitive se...

    Authors: Yuling Liu, Renhai Peng, Fang Liu, Xingxing Wang, Xinglei Cui, Zhongli Zhou, Chunying Wang, Xiaoyan Cai, Yuhong Wang, Zhongxu Lin and Kunbo Wang

    Citation: Molecular Cytogenetics 2016 9:27

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  14. The question what makes Homo sapiens sapiens (HSA) special among other species is one of the basic questions of mankind. A small contribution to answer this question is to study the chromosomal constitution of HS...

    Authors: Wiwat Sangpakdee, Alongklod Tanomtong, Xiaobo Fan, Krit Pinthong, Anja Weise and Thomas Liehr

    Citation: Molecular Cytogenetics 2016 9:17

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  15. The uncultivated species Dasypyrum breviaristatum carries novel diseases resistance and agronomically important genes of potential use for wheat improvement. The development of new wheat-D. breviaristatum derivat...

    Authors: Guangrong Li, Dan Gao, Hongjun Zhang, Jianbo Li, Hongjin Wang, Shixiao La, jiwei Ma and Zujun Yang

    Citation: Molecular Cytogenetics 2016 9:6

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  16. The genus Clarias (Clariidae, Siluriformes) contains at least 61 species naturally spread over vast regions of Asia, India and Africa. However, Clarias species have also been introduced in many different countrie...

    Authors: Nuntiya Maneechot, Cassia Fernanda Yano, Luiz Antonio Carlos Bertollo, Nuntaporn Getlekha, Wagner Franco Molina, Sukhonthip Ditcharoen, Bundit Tengjaroenkul, Weerayuth Supiwong, Alongklod Tanomtong and Marcelo de Bello Cioffi

    Citation: Molecular Cytogenetics 2016 9:4

    Content type: Research

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Molecular Cytogenetics

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