Sex Chromosomes: Platypus Genome Suggests a Recent Origin for the Human X

Current Biology

Volumn 18, Issue 13, 2008, Pages

  Ellegren, Hans ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; GENDER AND SEX; GENETICS; HUMAN; MALE; PLATYPUS; SEX CHROMOSOME; SHORT SURVEY; X CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALS; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, X; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PLATYPUS; SEX CHROMOSOMES; SEX DETERMINATION (GENETICS);

EUTHERIA; MONOTREMATA;

EID: 45849098332     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2008.05.027     Document Type: Short Survey

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