In the platypus a meiotic chain of ten sex chromosomes shares genes with the bird Z and mammal X chromosomes

Nature

Volumn 432, Issue 7019, 2004, Pages 913-917

  Grützner, Frank ^a   Rens, Willem ^b   Tsend Ayush, Enkhjargal ^a   El Mogharbel, Nisrine ^a   O'Brien, Patricia C M ^b   Jones, Russell C ^c   Ferguson Smith, Malcolm A ^b   Marshall Graves, Jennifer A ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENES; PLANTS (BOTANY);

HOMOLOGY; KARYOTYPES; MEIOSIS;

CHROMOSOMES;

BIOLOGY;

ARTICLE; FEMALE; GAMETE; GENE; KARYOTYPE; MALE; MAMMAL; MEIOSIS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SEX CHROMOSOME; SEX DETERMINATION; SPERM; VERTEBRATE; X CHROMOSOME; Y CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALS; BIRDS; CHROMOSOME PAINTING; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; MALE; MAMMALS; MEIOSIS; METAPHASE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLATYPUS; SEX CHROMOSOMES; SEX DETERMINATION (GENETICS); SPERMATOZOA; TELOMERE; X CHROMOSOME; Y CHROMOSOME;

ANAS SP.; AVES; MAMMALIA; MONOTREMATA; ORNITHORHYNCHUS ANATINUS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 11144346999     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature03021     Document Type: Article

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