The chicken as a model to study microchromosomes in birds a review 英文参考文献.docVIP

(Received 17 December 1997; accepted 22 April 1998) Abstract - The typical avian karyotype is composed of a few macrochromosomes importance, the chicken is the avian species for which cytogenetic and genetic maps are the most developed. Based on these genome studies, it has been shown that the chicken microchromosomes are carriers of dense genetic information. Indeed, of the genes and exhibit high recombination rates. Because of the presence of microchromosomes, the genetic size of the chicken genome seems higher than first estimated and could reach more than 4 000 cM for 1 200 M