Atlas of Mammalian Chromosomes

About this book

The updated new edition of the popular collection of high-resolution chromosome photographs – for geneticists, mammologists, and biologists interested in comparative genomics, systematics, and chromosome structure.

Filled with a visually exquisite collection of the banded metaphase chromosome karyotypes from some 1,000 species of mammals, the Atlas of Mammalian Chromosomes offers an unabridged compendium of the state of this genomic art form. The Atlas contains the best karyotype produced, the common and Latin name of the species, the published citation, and identifies the contributing authors. Nearly all karyotypes are G-banded, revealing the chromosomal bar codes of homologous segments among related species. The Atlas brings together information from a range of cytogenetic literature and features high-quality karyotype images for nearly every mammal studied to date.

When the Atlas was first published, only three mammals were sequenced. Today, that number is over 300. Now in its second edition, this book contains extensive revisions and major additions such as new karyotypes that employ G- and C- banding to represent euchromatin and heterochromatin genome composition, new phylogenetic trees for each order, homology segment chromosome information on published aligned chromosome painting. Summaries of the painting data for some species indicate conserved homology segments among compared species. An invaluable resource for today's comparative genomics era, this comprehensive collection of high-resolution chromosome photographs:
- Assembles information previously scattered throughout the cytogenetics literature in one comprehensive volume
- Provides chromosome information and illustrations for the karyotypes of 300 new species
- Addresses the mandate of the Human Genome Project to annotate the genomes of other organisms
- Serves as a basis for chromosome-level genome assemblies
- Offers a detailed summation of three decades of ZooFish (chromosome painting)
- Presents high-resolution photos of karyotypes that represent more than 1,000 mammal species

Written for geneticists, mammalogists, and biologists, the Atlas of Mammalian Chromosomes offers a step forward for an understanding of species formation, of genome organization, and of DNA script for natural selection.

Contents

Acknowledgments i
Contributors ii
Foreword 1 by Malcolm A. Ferguson-Smith lviii
Foreword 2 by Denis M. Larkin lxiii
Introduction lxviii

Mammalia Time Tree 1
      Monotremata Time Tree 2
            Order Monotremata 3
      Marsupialia Time Tree 6
            Order Didelphimorphia 7
            Order Paucituberculata 14
            Order Microbiotheria 14
            Order Dasyuromorphia 15
            Order Peramelemorphia 21
            Order Notoryctemorphia 22
            Order Diprotodontia 22
      Afrotheria Time Tree 38
            Order Afrosoricida
            Order Sirenia 53
            Order Proboscidea 55
      Xenarthra Time Tree 64
            Superorder Xenarthra 65
                  Order Pilosa
                  Order Cingulata
      Euarchontoglires Time Tree 79
            Order Scandentia Time Tree 80
            Order Dermoptera 84
            Order Primates Time Tree 87
            Order Rodentia Time Tree 186
      Laurasiatheria Time Tree 465
            Order Eulipotyphla (Insectivora) Time Tree 466
            Order Chiroptera Time Tree 502
            Order Pholidota Time Tree 703
            Order Cetartiodactyla Time Tree 706
            Order Perissodactyla Time Tree 858

References 881
Afterword Chromosomes: Much More Than DNA by Jennifer A. Marshall Graves 902
Index 904
Index of Painting Probes 930

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Biography

Alexander S. Graphodatsky is Head of the Research Department of the Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences and Novosibirsk State University. He is the author of more than 200 scientific publications on cytogenetics, genome diversity, and evolution of mammals.

Polina L. Perelman is a Research Scientist at the Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology and at Novosibirsk State University, Russia.

Stephen J. O'Brien is Director of Research at Nova Southeastern University, USA and Chief Scientific Officer at the Theodosius Dobzhansky Center for Genome Bioinformatics, St. Petersburg State University, Russia. He previously served as Chief of the Laboratory of Genomic Diversity at the National Cancer Institute, USA.