The dragon lizard Pogona vitticeps has ZZ/ZW micro-sex chromosomes

Chromosome Research

Volumn 13, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 763-776

  Ezaz, Tariq ^a   Quinn, Alexander E ^b   Miura, Ikuo ^c   Sarre, Stephen D ^b   Georges, Arthur ^b   Marshall Graves, Jennifer A ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CANBERRA   (Australia)

^c HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Agamid; CGH; Comparative genomic hybridization; Heterochromatinization; Microchromosomes; Sex chromosomes

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BIRD; COMPARATIVE GENOMIC HYBRIDIZATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOGENETICS; DNA DETERMINATION; GENOTYPE; KARYOTYPE; LIZARD; MAMMAL; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX CHROMOSOME; SNAKE;

ANIMALS; CHROMOSOME BANDING; FEMALE; KARYOTYPING; LIZARDS; MALE; MICRODISSECTION; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; SEX CHROMOSOMES; SEX DETERMINATION (GENETICS); SEX DIFFERENTIATION;

AGAMIDAE; ANIMALIA; AVES; CROCODYLIDAE (ALL CROCODILES); MAMMALIA; POGONA VITTICEPS; REPTILIA; SERPENTES; SQUAMATA; TESTUDINES;

EID: 28844479703     PISSN: 09673849     EISSN: 15736849     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10577-005-1010-9     Document Type: Article

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