Evolution on the X chromosome: Unusual patterns and processes

Nature Reviews Genetics

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 645-653

  Vicoso, Beatriz ^a   Charlesworth, Brian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AUTOSOME; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL DIVISION; CHROMOSOMAL LOCALIZATION; CHROMOSOME SIZE; CODON; CYTOGENETICS; DROSOPHILA; EVOLUTION; FITNESS; FLY; GAMETE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME; HEMIZYGOSITY; HUMAN; MAMMAL; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; REVIEW; SEX; SPECIES; SPERMATOGENESIS; THEORETICAL MODEL; X CHROMOSOME; X CHROMOSOME LINKAGE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC DISEASES, X-LINKED; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; X CHROMOSOME;

EID: 33746218184     PISSN: 14710056     EISSN: 14710064     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrg1914     Document Type: Review

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