The region homologous to the X-chromosome inactivation centre has been disrupted in marsupial and monotreme mammals

Chromosome Research

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 147-161

  Hore, Timothy A ^a   Koina, Edda ^a   Wakefield, Matthew J ^a,b   Marshall Graves, Jennifer A ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b WALTER AND ELIZA HALL INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Australia)

Author keywords

Epigenetics; Marsupials; Monotremes; X inactivation; XIST

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOSOME; CHROMOSOME MAP; CHROMOSOME STRUCTURE; GENE; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LOCUS; MARSUPIAL; MONOTREMATE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPOSSUM; ORTHOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; PLATYPUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA ANALYSIS; SOMATIC CELL; X CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION; X INACTIVE TRANSCRIPT GENE;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, ARTIFICIAL, BACTERIAL; CLONING, MOLECULAR; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; GENE LIBRARY; GENES, X-LINKED; HUMANS; MALE; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MONODELPHIS; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PLATYPUS; RNA, UNTRANSLATED; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; X CHROMOSOME; X CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION;

ANURA; DIDELPHIDAE; EUTHERIA; MAMMALIA; METATHERIA; MONOTREMATA;

EID: 33847614443     PISSN: 09673849     EISSN: 15736849     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10577-007-1119-0     Document Type: Article

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