The SRY gene HMG-box in micro- and megabats

Cytogenetics and Cell Genetics

Volumn 88, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 30-34

  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

HIGH MOBILITY GROUP PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BAT; DNA SEQUENCE; FEMALE; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHIROPTERA; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FEMALE; HIGH MOBILITY GROUP PROTEINS; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MALE; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIMATES; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SEX-DETERMINING REGION Y PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; Y CHROMOSOME;

MAMMALIA; PRIMATES;

EID: 17944389390     PISSN: 03010171     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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