Low Levels of Nucleotide Diversity in Mammalian Y Chromosomes

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 158-163

  Hellborg, Linda ^a   Ellegren, Hans ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Background selection; Effective population size; Male mutation bias; Selective sweeps; Sex chromosomes

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOSOME; CATTLE; GENE; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; INTRON; MAMMALIAN GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POPULATION SIZE; REINDEER; REPRODUCTION; SEX CHROMOSOME; SEX LIMITATION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; Y CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALS; DNA PRIMERS; EUROPE; INTRONS; MALE; MAMMALS; MUTATION; NORTH AMERICA; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; VARIATION (GENETICS); X CHROMOSOME; Y CHROMOSOME;

AVES; BOS TAURUS; CANIS; LYNX; MAMMALIA; MICROTUS AGRESTIS; MURIDAE; RANGIFER TARANDUS;

EID: 1242352075     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msh008     Document Type: Article

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