The degenerate Y chromosome - Can conversion save it?

Reproduction, Fertility and Development

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 527-534

  Marshall Graves, Jennifer A ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HIGH MOBILITY GROUP PROTEIN; PALINDROMIC DNA;

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME MUTATION; CHROMOSOME PAIRING; CHROMOSOME VARIANT; FEMALE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE CONVERSION; GENE LOSS; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC DRIFT; GENETIC ISOLATION BY DISTANCE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC SELECTION; HIGH MOBILITY GROUP BOX DOMAIN; HUMAN; KARYOTYPE 46,XY; MALE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; POPULATION RESEARCH; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SEX CHROMOSOME; SEX CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; SEX DETERMINATION; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; SRY GENE; X CHROMOSOME; Y CHROMOSOME LINKAGE;

CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, Y; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HUMANS; MALE;

HOMINIDAE;

EID: 4444299012     PISSN: 10313613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/RD03096     Document Type: Article

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