Sex chromosomal transposable element accumulation and male-driven substitutional evolution in humans

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 804-812

  Erlandsson, Rikard ^a,b   Wilson, James F ^a,c   Päad̈bo, Svante ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

^b ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Alu repeats; Human sex chromosomes; Retroviral elements; Retroviruslike elements; ZFX; ZFY

Indexed keywords

ALU SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; AUTOSOME; BIOACCUMULATION; GENE INSERTION SEQUENCE; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC DRIFT; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SEX CHROMOSOME; TRANSPOSON; X CHROMOSOME; Y CHROMOSOME;

EID: 0034020465     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.molbev.a026359     Document Type: Article

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