Consomic Strain

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English: consomic strain Czech: konsomický kmen

Consomic strains are special type of congenic strains. The differential segment between the consomic strain and its parental (progenitor) strain is represented by a whole chromosome. Consomic strains are often used in experimental genetics. A panel of consomic strains, where each strain carries a distinct chromosome from strain A on the genomic background of strain B (see ideogram of one such strain, B.A7 below), can speed up the localization of genes influencing particular trait on the specific chromosome.

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• ŠEDA, Ondřej – LIŠKA, František – ŠEDOVÁ, Lucie. Current genetics [online]. ©2005-2006. [cit. 2011-09-08]. <http://biol.lf1.cuni.cz/ucebnice/en/index.htm>.