B-chromosome evolution

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 355, Issue 1394, 2000, Pages 163-178

  Camacho, Juan Pedro M ^a   Sharbel, Timothy F ^b,d   Beukeboom, Leo W ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^b Max Planck Inst F V   (Germany)

^c LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR CHEMICAL ECOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

B chromosomes; Evolution; Heterochromatin; Muller's ratchet; Repetitive DNA; Transposons

Indexed keywords

AUTOSOME; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE INTERACTION; GENE REPRESSION; GENETIC CROSS; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC VARIANCE; HETEROCHROMATIN; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; REPETITIVE DNA; SEX CHROMOSOME; TRANSPOSON;

CHROMOSOME; EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR ECOLOGY;

EID: 0034728446     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2000.0556     Document Type: Review

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