The evolution of sex-biased genes and sex-biased gene expression

Nature Reviews Genetics

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 689-698

  Ellegren, Hans ^a   Parsch, John ^b  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CODON; GENE DOSAGE; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC TRAIT; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME; HUMAN; MEDICAL GENETICS; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; REVIEW; SEX BIASED GENE; SEX CHROMOSOME; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CODON; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; GENE DOSAGE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENES, X-LINKED; GENES, Y-LINKED; HUMANS; MALE; OPEN READING FRAMES; SELECTION (GENETICS); SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SEX CHROMOSOMES;

EID: 34548013932     PISSN: 14710056     EISSN: 14710064     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrg2167     Document Type: Review

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