Publication Date:
1979-07-20
Description:
The serendipitous mating of a male gibbon, Hylobates moloch, and a female siamang, Symphalangus syndactylus, has produced two female offspring born 1 year apart. The hybrid karyotype of 47 chromosomes comprises the haploid complements of the parental species, 22 for the gibbon and 25 for the siamang. Chromosomal G and C banding comparisons revealed no clear homologies between the parental karyotypes except for the single chromosome in each species containing the nucleolus organizer region. The lack of homology suggests that the structural rearrangement of chromosomes has played a major role in the process of speciation for these lesser apes.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Myers, R H -- Shafer, D A -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1979 Jul 20;205(4403):308-10.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/451603" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Animals
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Biological Evolution
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Female
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Hominidae/*genetics
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*Hybridization, Genetic
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Hylobates/*genetics
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Karyotyping
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Male
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
