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BioMed Central | Full text | Gene order data from a model amphibian (Ambystoma): new perspectives on vertebrate genome ... (6148 words) |
 | Ambystoma has experienced a rate of genome rearrangement that is substantially lower than mammalian species but similar to that of chicken and fish. |
| Ambystoma has a much larger genome and haploid complement of 14 chromosomes [20], whereas chicken has a haploid complement of 39 chromosomes [9]. |
| The Ambystoma map and reference genomes were formatted as concatenated (across linkage groups or chromosomes) series of orthologs and input into the program FISH [26]. |
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Tiger Salamanders (713 words) |
| Of the 6 subspecies of Ambystoma tigrinum discussed here it is the Eastern Tiger Salamander that may some day be regarded as a separate species, in which case it would be given the name Ambystoma tigrinum, while the remaining would be grouped under the name Ambystoma mavortium while retaining the original subspecies name. |
| In the Barred Tiger Salamander (Ambystoma tigrinum mavortium) the dark spots are larger than in the last two and tend to form the background color, while there are yellow bars or stripes that extend from the belly to the middle of the back, though these are irregular in form. |
| The Sonoran Tiger Salamander (Ambystoma tigrinum stebbinsi - not shown) is restricted to the highlands of the Huachuca and Patagonia Mountains in Arizona. |
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