Figure 1.

Comparative map between tammar chromosome MEU5, and corresponding opossum (MDO) and human (HSA) chromosomes. The different coloured regions in MDO4 and MDO7 indicate blocks of opossum-human conserved synteny (with the largest human chromosome blocks identified in the figure, and all relevant human chromosomes indicated in the colour-scheme box). Letters A to I indicate blocks of tammar-opossum/human conserved synteny, with each of the eight breakpoints (and the orientation of each block) indicated by flanking markers. The two markers to the left of MEU5 flank the centromere identified by FISH mapping. The sections of MDO7 shadowed as MEU6 indicate that all those sections of MDO7 except the block conserved with MEU5, are conserved with MEU6.