An XX/XY heteromorphic sex chromosome system in the Australian chelid turtle Emydura macquarii: A new piece in the puzzle of sex chromosome evolution in turtles

Chromosome Research

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 815-825

  Martinez, Pedro Alonzo ^a   Ezaz, Tariq ^b   Valenzuela, Nicole ^a   Georges, Arthur ^c   Marshall Graves, Jennifer A ^b  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CANBERRA   (Australia)

Author keywords

CGH; Emydura; Evolution; G banding; Sex chromosomes; Sex determination; Speciation; Turtles

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUTOSOME; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CHROMOSOME ARM; CHROMOSOME BANDING PATTERN; CHROMOSOME REARRANGEMENT; CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION; CLADISTICS; COMPARATIVE GENOMIC HYBRIDIZATION; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HETEROCHROMATIN; MALE; METAPHASE; MICROCHROMOSOME; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX CHROMOSOME; SEX DETERMINATION; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; TELOMERE; TURTLE;

ANIMALS; AUSTRALIA; CHROMOSOME BANDING; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; GENOME; INDOLES; KARYOTYPING; MALE; METAPHASE; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; PHYLOGENY; TURTLES; X CHROMOSOME; Y CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALIA; CHELIDAE; CHELODINA LONGICOLLIS; EMYDURA; EMYDURA MACQUARII; PLEURODIRA; TESTUDINES;

EID: 52049101129     PISSN: 09673849     EISSN: 15736849     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10577-008-1228-4     Document Type: Article

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