Isolation, X location and activity of the marsupial homologue of SLC16A2, an XIST-flanking gene in eutherian mammals

Chromosome Research

Volumn 13, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 687-698

  Koina, Edda ^a   Wakefield, Matthew J ^a   Walcher, Cristina ^b   Disteche, Christine M ^b   Whitehead, Siobhan ^c   Ross, Mark ^c   Marshall Graves, Jennifer A ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Marsupial; SLC16A2 gene; X chromosome evolution; X chromosome inactivation

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL CLONE; CHROMOSOME ARM; CHROMOSOME ISOLATION; COMPARATIVE GENOMIC HYBRIDIZATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FLANKING REGION; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE; GENE DOSAGE; GENE LOCATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MAPPING; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE SILENCING; KANGAROO; MALE; MARSUPIAL; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA HYBRIDIZATION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SOLUTE CARRIER FAMILY 16 CLASS A MEMBER 2 GENE; X CHROMATIN; X CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; CORNEA; DOSAGE COMPENSATION, GENETIC; EPITHELIAL CELLS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; FIBROBLASTS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; KARYOTYPING; MALE; MAMMALS; MARSUPIALIA; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MONOCARBOXYLIC ACID TRANSPORTERS; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RNA, UNTRANSLATED; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; X CHROMOSOME;

EUTHERIA; MACROPUS EUGENII; METATHERIA;

EID: 26944493360     PISSN: 09673849     EISSN: 15736849     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10577-005-1006-5     Document Type: Article

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