Molecular features and functional constraints in the evolution of the mammalian X chromosome

Critical Reviews in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 313-330

  Khil, Pavel P ^a   Camerini Otero, R Daniel ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DIABETES AND DIGESTIVE AND KIDNEY DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

Epigenetics; Meiotic sex chomosome inactivation; MSCI; Retrotransposition; Sex determination; Sex biased genes; Sexual antagonism

Indexed keywords

EPIGENETICS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GERM LINE GENE THERAPY; HUMAN; MAMMAL; MEIOSIS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEX CHROMOSOME; SEX DETERMINATION; X CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALS; CHROMATIN; CHROMOSOMES, MAMMALIAN; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEIOSIS; MUTATION; X CHROMOSOME;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 29744460874     PISSN: 10409238     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10409230500356703     Document Type: Review

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