Recent data published in the international journal Comparative
Cytogenetics by Mauro Mandrioli, Federica Zanasi and Gian Carlo Manicardi of the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia (Italy) clearly showed that populations of the green peach aphid Myzus persicae (one of the most dangerous pest crop insects in the world) may have unusual karyotypes due to chromosomal fragmentations and / or rearrangements also within the same individual.
Not exact matches
The high resolution that is achieved
by these techniques, particularly
by microarray technologies such as array comparative genomic hybridization, is blurring the traditional distinction between
cytogenetics and molecular biology.
Topics explored
by AJHG include behavioral genetics, biochemical genetics, clinical genetics,
cytogenetics, dysmorphology, gene therapy, genetic counseling, genetic epidemiology, genomics, immunogenetics, molecular genetics, neurogenetics, and population genetics.
Rooney and his associate scientist Dr. George Hodnett will look at the
cytogenetics — how chromosomes relate to cell behavior — of outcrossing between these two species and how they are influenced
by sorghum genotype.
Human iPS cells were grown to confluence on 10 - cm dishes, then harvested and metaphase spreads obtained
by the Cambridge University Hospitals
Cytogenetics diagnostics laboratory.
This newly appreciated aspect of malignancy is now being unraveled
by Stanley Korsmeyer in St. Louis and Suzanne Cory in Melbourne, thanks in large part to the careful
cytogenetics of Janet Rowley.
He is a medical geneticist, pediatrician, and child neurologist, certified
by the American Board of Medical Genetics and Genomics (clinical genetics, clinical
cytogenetics, and clinical molecular genetics), American Board of Pediatrics, and American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology (child neurology).