Multiple mono- and polymorphic Y-linked copies of the SRY HMG-box in Microtidae

Cytogenetics and Cell Genetics

Volumn 86, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 46-50

  Bullejos, M ^a   Sánchez, Antonio ^a   Burgos, M ^b   Jimenez R ^b   Diaz De La Guardia R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JAÉN   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA BINDING PROTEIN; HIGH MOBILITY GROUP PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME POLYMORPHISM; FEMALE; GENE NUMBER; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOGENE; SEX DETERMINATION; STOP CODON; VOLE; Y CHROMOSOME LINKAGE;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ARVICOLINAE; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CODON, TERMINATOR; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FEMALE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE DOSAGE; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PHYSICAL CHROMOSOME MAPPING; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; PSEUDOGENES; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEX-DETERMINING REGION Y PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; Y CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALIA; ARVICOLINAE; ELLOBIUS; MAMMALIA; MICROTUS CABRERAE; MURIDAE; RODENTIA; TOKUDAIA;

EID: 0345034804     PISSN: 03010171     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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