Nuclear sex-determining genes cause large sex-ratio variation in the apple snail Pomacea canaliculata

Genetics

Volumn 175, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 179-184

  Yusa, Yoichi ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH CENTER FOR KYUSHU OKINAWA REGION   (Japan)

^b NARA WOMEN'S UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC MARKER; GENOTYPE; HEREDITY; MALE; MATING; NONHUMAN; POMACEA CANALICULATA; POPULATION GENETIC PARAMETERS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DETERMINATION; SEX RATIO; SNAIL; SRY GENE; ZYGOTE;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; INHERITANCE PATTERNS; MALE; PEDIGREE; SEX DETERMINATION (GENETICS); SEX RATIO; SNAILS;

BASOMMATOPHORA; GASTROPODA; MALUS X DOMESTICA; POMACEA CANALICULATA;

EID: 33846501436     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: 00166731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.106.060400     Document Type: Article

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