Low X/Y divergence in four pairs of papaya sex-linked genes

Plant Journal

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 124-132

  Yu, Qingyi ^a   Hou, Shaobin ^b   Feltus, F Alex ^c   Jones, Meghan R ^a   Murray, Jan E ^a   Veatch, Olivia ^a,b   Lemke, Cornelia ^c   Saw, Jimmy H ^b   Moore, Richard C ^d   Thimmapuram, Jyothi ^e   Liu, Lei ^e   Moore, Paul H ^f   Alam, Maqsudul ^b   Jiang, Jiming ^g   Paterson, Andrew H ^c   Ming, Ray ^a,e  

^a HAWAII AGRICULTURE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^d MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^f AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Carica papaya; Chromosomal rearrangements; Male specific region of the Y chromosome (MSY); Molecular evolution; Sex chromosomes

Indexed keywords

BACTERIOLOGY; DNA SEQUENCES; GENETIC ENGINEERING; PLANT CELL CULTURE;

CARICA PAPAYA; CHROMOSOMAL REARRANGEMENTS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; SEQUENCE DIVERGENCE; SEX CHROMOSOMES;

CHROMOSOMES;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ARTIFICIAL CHROMOSOME; GENDER AND SEX; GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PAPAYA; PLANT CHROMOSOME; SEX CHROMOSOME; X CHROMOSOME; Y CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALS; CARICA; CHROMOSOMES, ARTIFICIAL, BACTERIAL; CHROMOSOMES, PLANT; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; SEX CHROMOSOMES; SEX DETERMINATION (GENETICS); X CHROMOSOME; Y CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CARICA PAPAYA; CARICACEAE; MAGNOLIOPHYTA;

EID: 37249083969     PISSN: 09607412     EISSN: 1365313X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-313X.2007.03329.x     Document Type: Article

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