A bird's-eye view of sex chromosome dosage compensation

Annual Review of Genomics and Human Genetics

Volumn 9, Issue , 2008, Pages 109-127

  Arnold, Arthur P ^a   Itoh, Yuichiro ^a   Melamed, Esther ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Chicken; Evolution; Gene expression; Male hypermethylated (MHM); Sex difference; Z chromosome

Indexed keywords

FOWL; GENE DOSAGE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENOME; INHERITANCE; KARYOTYPE 46,XX; KARYOTYPE 46,XY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; REVIEW; SEX CHROMOSOME; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION;

ANIMALS; BIRDS; CHICKENS; DOSAGE COMPENSATION, GENETIC; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, GENETIC; SEX CHROMOSOMES;

AVES;

EID: 52949138240     PISSN: 15278204     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.genom.9.081307.164220     Document Type: Review

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