Conservation of chromosome arrangement and position of the X in mammalian sperm suggests functional significance

Chromosome Research

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 503-512

  Greaves, Ian K ^a,b   Rens, Willem ^c   Ferguson Smith, Malcolm A ^c   Griffin, Darren ^d   Graves, Jennifer A Marshall ^a,b  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^d BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chicken; Chromatin; Chromosome painting; Eutheria; Imprinting; Marsupial; Sperm; X inactivation

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CHICKEN; CHROMOSOME PAINTING; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CYTOARCHITECTURE; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC ORGANIZATION; GENOME IMPRINTING; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; INTERPHASE; KARYOTYPE; MARSUPIAL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPERM; X CHROMATIN; X CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION;

ANIMALS; CELL NUCLEUS; CHICKENS; CHROMOSOME PAINTING; CHROMOSOME POSITIONING; EVOLUTION; MALE; MARSUPIALIA; PLATYPUS; SPERMATOZOA; X CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALIA; EUTHERIA; GALLUS GALLUS; MAMMALIA; METATHERIA; MONOTREMATA;

EID: 0042880048     PISSN: 09673849     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1024982929452     Document Type: Article

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