First-Generation Linkage Map of the Gray, Short-Tailed Opossum, Monodelphis domestica, Reveals Genome-Wide Reduction in Female Recombination Rates

Genetics

Volumn 166, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 307-329

  Samollow, Paul B ^a   Kammerer, Candace M ^b   Mahaney, Susan M ^a   Schneider, Jennifer L ^a   Westenberger, Scott J ^a,d   VandeBerg, John L ^a,c   Robinson, Edward S ^a,e  

^a SOUTHWEST FOUNDATION FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH GRADUATE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c SOUTHWEST NATIONAL PRIMATE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL DISORDER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA RECOMBINATION; EXPERIMENTAL ANIMAL; FEMALE; GENE LOCUS; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; MALE; MAMMAL; MARKER GENE; MARSUPIAL; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MONODELPHIS DOMESTICA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPOSSUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; VERTEBRATE; X CHROMOSOME; X CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; DNA; FEMALE; GENOME; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPOSSUMS; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

ANIMALIA; DIDELPHIDAE; EUTHERIA; MAMMALIA; METATHERIA; MONODELPHIS DOMESTICA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 1642399763     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.166.1.307     Document Type: Article

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