The search for a marsupial XIC reveals a break with vertebrate synteny

Chromosome Research

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 137-146

  Davidow, Lance S ^a   Breen, Matthew ^b   Duke, Shannon E ^b   Samollow, Paul B ^c   McCarrey, John R ^d   Lee, Jeannie T ^a,e  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

^e HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Marsupial; Monodelphis domestica; Noncoding RNA; TSIX; X inactivation center; X chromosome; XIC; XIST

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; CHICKEN; CHROMOSOME MAP; CHROMOSOME REARRANGEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOGENETICS; FROG; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENOME ANALYSIS; MARSUPIAL; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; OPOSSUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUFFER FISH; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; X CHROMOSOME; X CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION;

ANIMALS; CHROMOSOME WALKING; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; CYTOGENETIC ANALYSIS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; GENES, X-LINKED; GENOMICS; HUMANS; MALE; MONOCARBOXYLIC ACID TRANSPORTERS; MONODELPHIS; RNA, UNTRANSLATED; SYNTENY; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; VERTEBRATES; X CHROMOSOME; X CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION;

ANURA; DIDELPHIDAE; EUTHERIA; MAMMALIA; METATHERIA; MONODELPHIS DOMESTICA; TETRAODONTIDAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 33847622895     PISSN: 09673849     EISSN: 15736849     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10577-007-1121-6     Document Type: Article

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