Female-specific DNA sequences in the chicken genome

Journal of Heredity

Volumn 98, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 238-242

  Granevitze, Zur ^a   Blum, Shula ^a   Cheng, Hans ^b   Vignal, Alain ^c   Morisson, Mireille ^c   Ben Ari, Giora ^a   David, Lior ^a   Feldman, Marcus William ^d   Weigend, Steffen ^e   Hillel, Jossi ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^c CEMAGREF   (France)

^d STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e INSTITUT FÜR TIERZUCHT   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA FRAGMENT; DNA HYBRID; GENE PRODUCT; HELICASE; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; NUCLEOTIDE;

AMPLICON; ARTICLE; CHICKEN; COMPUTER MODEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA BINDING; DNA POLYMORPHISM; DNA SEQUENCE; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; FEMALE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION HYBRID MAPPING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SEX CHROMOSOME; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; TURKEY (BIRD);

ANIMALS; CHICKENS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; DNA; FEMALE; GENOME; HYBRID CELLS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE;

GALLUS GALLUS;

EID: 34548363612     PISSN: 00221503     EISSN: 14657333     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jhered/esm010     Document Type: Article

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