Animal karyotypes display a great diversity in number and morphology. Mammalian genomes can be resolved by chromosome painting into comparatively large conserved chromosomal segments ...

The term "karyotype" refers to the chromosomal pattern inside the nucleus of an animal cell (eukaryote), as well as to describes the set of chromosomes in a species or in an individual organism ...

That idea has led him to propose that cancers have actually evolved new chromosomal karyotypes that qualify them as autonomous species, akin to parasites and much different from their human hosts.

Your doctor may suggest that you get a karyotype test, based on the results of a pregnancy screening test. Find out what the test looks for and when it’s done.

The hybrid’s karyotype, or chromosome count and structure, displayed a unique combination: 76 chromosomes in total, with autosomes acrocentric and two X chromosomes differing in morphology—one ...