Sex chromosome-linked genes in plants

Genes and Genetic Systems

Volumn 81, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 219-226

  Matsunaga, Sachihiro ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Dioecious plant; Sex chromosomes; X chromosome; Y chromosome

Indexed keywords

MADS DOMAIN PROTEIN;

ANGIOSPERM; CHLOROPLAST; GENE ISOLATION; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOME; HOUSEKEEPING GENE; MALE GENITAL SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; PLANT CHROMOSOME; PLANT GENETICS; PLANT MORPHOLOGY; REVIEW; SILENE; X CHROMOSOME; Y CHROMOSOME;

CHROMOSOMES, PLANT; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FLOWERING TOPS; GENES, PLANT; GENES, X-LINKED; GENES, Y-LINKED; MADS DOMAIN PROTEINS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PLANTS; SEX CHROMOSOMES;

MAGNOLIOPHYTA; MAMMALIA; SILENE; SILENE LATIFOLIA;

EID: 33749685735     PISSN: 13417568     EISSN: 13417568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1266/ggs.81.219     Document Type: Review

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