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The sex chromosomes of the Chinese hamster: constitutive heterochromatin deficient in repetitive DNA sequences
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Entire Y ChromosomeGeneticsMolecular GeneticsDna SequencesGenomicsReproductive BiologyChromosome 10EpigeneticsGenome StructureGameteGenetic VariationRepetitive Dna SequencesChromosomal RearrangementSex ChromosomesBiologyChromatinChromosome DynamicsDevelopmental BiologyChromatin StructureNatural SciencesChromosome BiologyChinese HamsterMedicineChromosome 9
Portions of constitutive heterochromatin of the Chinese hamster <i>Cricetulus griseus, </i>do not appear to contain a disproportionately high amount of repeated DNA sequences. These specific regions are the long arm of the X chromosome, the entire Y chromosome, and the centromeric region of chromosome 10. Other heterochromatic areas of the Chinese hamster chromosomes showed localization of repetitious DNA.