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Molecular In Situ Hybridization Analysis of Sheep and Goat BAC Clones Identifies the Transcriptional Orientation of T Cell Receptor Gamma Genes on Chromosome 4 in Bovids

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Abbreviations

BAC:

bacterial artificial chromosome

BrdU:

bromodeoxyuridine

DAPI:

4,6-diamino-2-phenylindole

FISH:

fluorescence in situ hybridization

HGF:

hepatocyte growth factor

RBPI-banding:

R-banding by propidium iodide staining

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Antonacci, R., Vaccarelli, G., Di Meo, G.P. et al. Molecular In Situ Hybridization Analysis of Sheep and Goat BAC Clones Identifies the Transcriptional Orientation of T Cell Receptor Gamma Genes on Chromosome 4 in Bovids. Vet Res Commun 31, 977–983 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11259-006-0202-x

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