How did the platypus get its sex chromosome chain? A comparison of meiotic multiples and sex chromosomes in plants and animals

Chromosoma

Volumn 115, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 75-88

  Gruetzner, Frank ^a,d   Ashley, Terry ^b   Rowell, David M ^c   Marshall Graves, Jennifer A ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOSOME; CHROMOSOME REARRANGEMENT; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; CHROMOSOME STRUCTURE; CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOLUTION; EVOLUTIONARY HOMOLOGY; FEMALE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; HETEROZYGOSITY; INVERTEBRATE; MALE; MAMMAL; MEIOSIS; MOLECULAR HYBRIDIZATION; MONOTREMATE; NONHUMAN; PLANT CHROMOSOME; PLATYPUS; REVIEW; SEX CHROMOSOME; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; X CHROMOSOME; Y CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALS; CHROMOSOME PAIRING; CHROMOSOMES, MAMMALIAN; CHROMOSOMES, PLANT; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; FERTILITY; MALE; MEIOSIS; PLANTS; PLATYPUS; SEX CHROMOSOMES; TRANSLOCATION, GENETIC;

ANIMALIA; INVERTEBRATA; MAMMALIA; MONOTREMATA; ORNITHORHYNCHUS ANATINUS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 33644771606     PISSN: 00095915     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00412-005-0034-4     Document Type: Review

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