Exceptional minute sex-specific region in the X0 mammal, Ryukyu spiny rat

Chromosome Research

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 175-187

  Kobayashi, Tsuyoshi ^a   Yamada, Fumio ^b   Hashimoto, Takuma ^c   Abe, Shintaro ^d   Matsuda, Yoichi ^a   Kuroiwa, Asato ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b FORESTRY AND FOREST PRODUCTS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^c Japan Wild Life Research Center   (Japan)

^d Japan Ministry of the Environment   (Japan)

Author keywords

Ryukyu spiny rat; Sex chromosome; Tokudaia osimensis; Tokudaia tokunoshimensis; X0

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME STRUCTURE; COMPARATIVE GENOMIC HYBRIDIZATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOGENETICS; FEMALE; HETEROCHROMATIN; KARYOTYPE 45,X; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT STRAIN; ROBERTSONIAN CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION; SEX CHROMOSOME; TELOMERE; Y CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; CHROMOSOME BANDING; CHROMOSOMES, MAMMALIAN; CYTOGENETIC ANALYSIS; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; FIBROBLASTS; HETEROCHROMATIN; JAPAN; MALE; MURINAE; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; SEX DETERMINATION (GENETICS); SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TELOMERE; TRANSLOCATION, GENETIC; X CHROMOSOME;

MAMMALIA; ROBERTSONIA; TOKUDAIA; TOKUDAIA OSIMENSIS;

EID: 33847652824     PISSN: 09673849     EISSN: 15736849     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10577-006-1093-y     Document Type: Article

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