Plant sex chromosomes: Molecular structure and function

Cytogenetic and Genome Research

Volumn 120, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 255-264

  Jamilena, M ^a   Mariotti, B ^a   Manzano, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALMERÍA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

REPETITIVE DNA; SATELLITE DNA;

ASPARAGUS; CHROMOSOME STRUCTURE; DROSOPHILA; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE ISOLATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOMICS; MALE; MAMMAL; MARCHANTIA POLYMORPHA; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PAPAYA; PLANT; PLANT CHROMOSOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RUMEX ACETOSA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEX CHROMOSOME; SILENE LATIFOLIA; TRANSPOSON; X CHROMOSOME; Y CHROMOSOME;

CHROMOSOMES, PLANT; CYTOGENETICS; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, PLANT; DNA, SATELLITE; EVOLUTION; FLOWERS; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; PLANTS; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; TANDEM REPEAT SEQUENCES;

ASPARAGUS; ASPARAGUS OFFICINALIS; CARICA PAPAYA; MAMMALIA; MARCHANTIA POLYMORPHA; RUMEX ACETOSA; SILENE LATIFOLIA;

EID: 44349129094     PISSN: 14248581     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000121075     Document Type: Review

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