The Xmrk oncogene can escape nonfunctionalization in a highly unstable subtelomeric region of the genome of the fish Xiphophorus

Genomics

Volumn 82, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 470-479

  Volff, Jean Nicolas ^a   Körting, Cornelia ^a   Froschauer, Alexander ^a   Zhou, Qingchun ^a   Wilde, Brigitta ^a   Schultheis, Christina ^a   Selz, Yvonne ^a   Sweeney, Kimberley ^a   Duschl, Jutta ^a   Wichert, Katrin ^a   Altschmied, Joachim ^a,b   Schartl, Manfred ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b GOETHE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Duplication; egfr; Oncogene; Platyfish; Retrotransposon; Sex chromosome; Subtelomeric; Xiphophorus; Xmrk

Indexed keywords

EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FISH; FISH GENETICS; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LOCUS; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENETIC STABILITY; GENOME; MELANOMA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ONCOGENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOGENE; SEX CHROMOSOME; SEX DETERMINATION; TELOMERE; X CHROMOSOME; X CHROMOSOME LINKAGE; XIPHOPHORUS MACALATUS; XMRK ONCOGENE; Y CHROMOSOME; Y CHROMOSOME LINKAGE;

XIPHOPHORUS; XIPHOPHORUS MACULATUS;

EID: 12444320282     PISSN: 08887543     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0888-7543(03)00168-X     Document Type: Article

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