Chromosome

Definition of Chromosome

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A chromosome is a long DNA molecule with part or all of the genetic material of an organism. Most eukaryotic chromosomes include packaging proteins called histones which, aided by chaperone proteins, bind to and condense the DNA molecule to maintain its integrity. These chromosomes display a complex three-dimensional structure, which plays a significant role in transcriptional regulation. (Wikipedia)

From Biology, Medicine, and Surgery of Elephants, 2006 by Murray Fowler, Susan K. Mikota

The diploid chromosomes number in somatic cells for both elephant Species is 56.

Biology, Medicine, and Surgery of Elephants, 2006 by Murray Fowler, Susan K. Mikota

Reference list Koehl, Dan, (2024). Chromosome. Elephant Encyclopedia, available online retrieved 20 September 2021 at https://www.elephant.se/index.php?id=187. (archived at the Wayback machine)

Sources used for this article is among others:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromosome
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Selected publications

Hungerford, D.A., Chandra, H.S., Snyder, R.L. and Ulmer, F.A. (1966). Chromosomes of three elephants, two Asian (Elephas maximus) and one African (Loxodonta africana). Cytogenetics 5(3):243–246.
Sakthikumar, A., Mukundan, G. and Raghunandanan, K. 1990. Chromosome profile of Indian elephants (Elephas maximus indicus). Indian Journal of Animal Sciences 60(2):175–182.
Sakthikumar, A., Mukundan, G. and Raghunandanan, K.V. 1992. Chromosome profile of Indian elephants. In Silas, E.G., Nair, M.K. and Nirmalan, G., eds. The Asian Elephant: Ecology, Biology, Diseases, Conservation and Management (Proceedings of the National Symposium on the Asian Elephant held at the Kerala Agricultural University, Trichur, India, January 1989). Trichur, India Kerala Agricultural University, pp. 41–42.

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Selected external links for this article about Chromosome:

Alfred L. Roca, Nicholas Georgiadis, and Stephen J. O’Brien, Cyto-nuclear genomic dissociation and the African elephant species question, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2346444/

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