chromosome arm

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chromosome arm

[′krō·mə‚sōm ′ärm]

(cell and molecular biology)

One of the two main segments of the chromosome that are separated by the centromere.

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Putative Thinopyrum intermedium-derived stripe rust resistance gene Yr50 maps on wheat chromosome arm 4BL.

Molecular identification and mapping of a novel stripe rust resistance gene in wheat resistance line CH5389/Identificacao e mapeamento de um novo gene de resistencia a ferrugem linear na linhagem de trigo CH5389

Table 1 lists the number of bands in each chromosome arm, and Figure 2, A and B, depicts the color scheme of short and long arms.

Interphase Chromosome Profiling: A Method for Conventional Banded Chromosome Analysis Using Interphase Nuclei

performed read count and z-score analysis for whole chromosomes (19), we expanded the analysis to chromosome arms. Second, as our goal was the development of a prescreening tool that should perform fast at low cost, we used a lower amount of total reads than Kinde et al.

Rapid identification of plasma DNA samples with increased ctDNA levels by a modified FAST-SeqS approach

Chromosome arm length and chromosome morphological classifications in Turbo cornutus.

Karyotype and fluorescence in situ hybridization analyses of the telomere sequence on chromosomes of the top shell Turbo (Batillus) cornutus (archaeogastropoda, Turbinidae)

Among the [F.sub.2] hybrids, the deviation of the heterozygous dominance effect for a CS-B line and a cultivar from the heterozygous dominance for TM-1 line and the same cultivar can be considered as due to the allelic interactions between the substituted chromosome or the chromosome arm from 3-79 in the CS-B line and the homologous chromosome or arm in the respective cultivar.

Genetic effects of thirteen Gossypium barbadense L. chromosome substitution lines in topcrosses with upland cotton cultivars: I. Yield and yield components

For example, an extra chromosome arm would give rise to three copies of the chromosome arm in question, not just two.

A critical review of concepts and methods used in classical genome analysis

Comparisons of backcross males presented in Table 3 were between males possessing a mutant marker and males from the same backcross lacking the marker (hence, between those possessing a particular chromosome arm from D.

Genetics of sexual isolation and courtship dysfunction in make hyrids of Drosophila pseudoobscura and Drosophila persimilis

(1964), which considers chromosome arm size ratios and arranges them based on the centromere position.

Studies on the karyotype of the ant Pachycondyla harpax (Formicidae: Ponerinae: Ponerini) in Southern Bahia, Brazil

Ironically, the new proposal now recycles the term melanocytoma for a more heterogeneous group of melanocytic tumors with low metastatic or fatality rates, including atypical Spitz tumors, with an entirely different clinical, demographic, and most important, molecular signature, including HRAS aberrations and the gain of chromosome arm 11p.

"Nevus/melanocytoma/ melanoma": that which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet

Dn5 was located on chromosome arm 7DL by telosomic analysis (Du Toit et al., 1995) using the backcross derivative, 92RL28, as Dn5 single gene source material.

Chromosomal location of the Russian wheat aphid resistance gene, Dn5

Fine mapping of a region of common deletion on chromosome arm 10p in human glioma.

Allelic losses of chromosome 10 in glioma tissues detected by quantitative single-strand conformation polymorphism analysis

The chromosome arm number (NF value) equaled 110 (Figure 1a).

Cariotipo y regiones nucleolares organizadoras (nor) en Pygocentrus cariba (serrasalminae) de Caicara del Orinoco, Venezuela