Demasculinization of X chromosomes in the Drosophila genus

Nature

Volumn 450, Issue 7167, 2007, Pages 238-241

  Sturgill, David ^a   Zhang, Yu ^a   Parisi, Michael ^a,b   Oliver, Brian ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DIABETES AND DIGESTIVE AND KIDNEY DISEASES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARRAY; CHROMOSOME; EVOLUTION; FLY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ENGINEERING; MAMMAL; MOSQUITO; NEMATODE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; DROSOPHILA; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOMICS; GERM CELL; MALE; MITOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOMATIC CELL; X CHROMOSOME;

ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; DROSOPHILA ANANASSAE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA MOJAVENSIS; DROSOPHILA PSEUDOOBSCURA; DROSOPHILA SIMULANS; DROSOPHILA VIRILIS; DROSOPHILA YAKUBA; MAMMALIA; NEMATODA;

EID: 36049039511     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature06330     Document Type: Article

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