1 Sex and the single chromosome

Advances in Genetics

Volumn 46, Issue , 2002, Pages 1-24

  Meller, Victoria H ^a   Kuroda, Mitzi I ^b  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA BINDING PROTEIN; DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; MSL 2 PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA; MSL-2 PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHROMATIN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DROSOPHILA; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; GENDER AND SEX; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; MALE; MAMMAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REVIEW; SEX CHROMOSOME; Y CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALS; CHROMATIN; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DOSAGE COMPENSATION, GENETIC; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; MALE; MAMMALS; MODELS, GENETIC; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; SEX CHROMOSOMES; SEX DETERMINATION (GENETICS); TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; Y CHROMOSOME;

EID: 0036359901     PISSN: 00652660     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/s0065-2660(02)46002-6     Document Type: Review

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