Repetitive DNAs and shrink genomes: A chromosomal analysis in nine Columbidae species (Aves, Columbiformes)

Genomic Organization of Repetitive DNA in Woodpeckers (Aves, Piciformes): Implications for Karyotype and ZW Sex Chromosome Differentiation

(2017) Thays Duarte de Oliveira et al.   PLoS One

Chromosome mapping of the large elaenia (Elaenia spectabilis): evidence for a cytogenetic signature for passeriform birds?

(2015) Rafael Kretschmer et al.   BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Amplification of microsatellite repeat motifs is associated with the evolutionary differentiation and heterochromatinization of sex chromosomes in Sauropsida

(2015) Kazumi Matsubara et al.   CHROMOSOMA

Intrachromosomal rearrangements in two representatives of the genus Saltator (Thraupidae, Passeriformes) and the occurrence of heteromorphic Z chromosomes

(2015) Michelly da Silva dos Santos et al.   GENETICA

Molecular Cytogenetic Characterization of Multiple Intrachromosomal Rearrangements in Two Representatives of the Genus Turdus (Turdidae, Passeriformes)

(2014) Rafael Kretschmer et al.   PLoS One

Expansion of Microsatellites on Evolutionary Young Y Chromosome

(2013) Eduard Kejnovský et al.   PLoS One

The Evolution of Intron Size in Amniotes: A Role for Powered Flight?

(2012) Qu Zhang et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

The key role of repeated DNAs in sex chromosome evolution in two fish species with ZW sex chromosome system

(2012) Marcelo de Bello Cioffi et al.   Molecular Cytogenetics

Microsatellite distribution on sex chromosomes at different stages of heteromorphism and heterochromatinization in two lizard species (Squamata: Eublepharidae: Coleonyx elegans and Lacertidae: Eremias velox)

(2011) Martina Pokorná et al.   BMC GENETICS

Variable Tandem Repeats Accelerate Evolution of Coding and Regulatory Sequences

(2010) Rita Gemayel et al.   Annual Review of Genetics

Reciprocal chromosome painting between white hawk (Leucopternis albicollis) and chicken reveals extensive fusions and fissions during karyotype evolution of accipitridae (Aves, Falconiformes)

(2010) Edivaldo H. Correa de Oliveira et al.   CHROMOSOME RESEARCH

Maintenance of syntenic groups between Cathartidae and Gallus gallus indicates symplesiomorphic karyotypes in new world vultures

(2010) Marcella M. Tagliarini et al.   GENETICS AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

The genome of a songbird

(2010) Wesley C. Warren et al.   NATURE

The genome sizes of megabats (Chiroptera: Pteropodidae) are remarkably constrained

(2009) J. D.L. Smith et al.   Biology Letters

The smallest avian genomes are found in hummingbirds

(2009) T. R. Gregory et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Palaeogenomics of pterosaurs and the evolution of small genome size in flying vertebrates

(2008) C. L Organ et al.   Biology Letters

Characterization of chromosome structures of Falconinae (Falconidae, Falconiformes, Aves) by chromosome painting and delineation of chromosome rearrangements during their differentiation

(2008) Chizuko Nishida et al.   CHROMOSOME RESEARCH

Microsatellite accumulation on the Y chromosome in Silene latifolia

(2008) Zdenek Kubat et al.   GENOME

Genome size and wing parameters in passerine birds

(2008) C. B Andrews et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES