Dosage compensation: Do birds do it as well?

Trends in Genetics

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 25-28

  Ellegren, Hans ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIRD; CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MOLECULAR MODEL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RNA TRANSLATION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SEX CHROMOSOME; SEX DETERMINATION; SEX LINKAGE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALS; BIRDS; DNA METHYLATION; DOSAGE COMPENSATION, GENETIC; FEMALE; LINKAGE (GENETICS); MALE; MAMMALS; MODELS, GENETIC; SEX CHROMOSOMES; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

AVES; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0036139265     PISSN: 01689525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-9525(01)02553-7     Document Type: Review

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