Dosage compensation, the origin and the afterlife of sex chromosomes

Chromosome Research

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 417-431

  Larsson, Jan ^a   Meller, Victoria H ^b  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dosage compensation; Drosophila; msl; Pof; Sex chromosomes

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT; PROTEIN MSL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CHROMATIN; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; DROSOPHILA; EVOLUTION; GENE; GENE DOSAGE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MAMMAL; MOF GENE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEX CHROMOSOME; SEX DETERMINATION; X CHROMOSOME; Y CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALS; CHROMOSOMES; DOSAGE COMPENSATION, GENETIC; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MALE; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SEX CHROMOSOMES; SEX FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; X CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 33745713130     PISSN: 09673849     EISSN: 15736849     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10577-006-1064-3     Document Type: Review

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