| Range |
~20 fold
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| Organism |
Chicken Gallus gallus |
| Reference |
Zhang H, Dawe RK. Total centromere size and genome size are strongly correlated in ten grass species. Chromosome Res. 2012 May20(4):403-12 p.409 left column bottom paragraphPubMed ID22552915
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| Primary Source |
Johnston K, Joglekar A, Hori T, Suzuki A, Fukagawa T, Salmon ED. Vertebrate kinetochore protein architecture: protein copy number. J Cell Biol. 2010 Jun 14 189(6):937-43.PubMed ID20548100
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| Comments |
In chicken DT40 cells, so-called macrochromosomes
are ~20 times larger than the minichromosomes,
but their centromeres appear to be roughly
the same size (primary source). |
| Entered by |
Uri M |
| ID |
108217 |