Pearce P D, Ansari H A, Maher D W, Malcolm A A, Stewart-Scott I A, Broad T E
Gene Mapping Unit, AgResearch Grasslands, Palmerston North, New Zealand.
Cytogenet Cell Genet. 1994;67(2):137-40. doi: 10.1159/000133814.
We report two new Robertsonian centric fusions, designated t4 and t5, in New Zealand Romney sheep. Q- and G-banding studies show that sheep chromosomes 5 and 8 are fused in t4 and that chromosomes 8 and 22 are fused in t5. The presence of large blocks of centromeric heterochromatin in t4 and t5 suggests that the fusions may be of recent origin.
