The pachytene checkpoint and its relationship to evolutionary patterns of polyploidization and hybrid sterility

Heredity

Volumn 102, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 24-30

  Li, X C ^a   Barringer, B C ^a,b   Barbash, D A ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Hybrid sterility; Meiosis; Pachytene checkpoint; Polyploidy

Indexed keywords

CHROMOSOME; DIMORPHISM; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; FUNGUS; GAMETE; PHENOTYPE; POLYPLOIDY; STERILITY;

ANIMAL; CHIMERA; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; FUNGUS; GENETICS; HYBRIDIZATION; INFERTILITY; MALE; MEIOSIS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PLANT; PLOIDY; SHORT SURVEY; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION;

ANIMALS; CHIMERA; EVOLUTION; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; FUNGI; GENETIC SPECIATION; HYBRIDIZATION, GENETIC; INFERTILITY; MALE; MEIOSIS; PLANTS; PLOIDIES;

ANIMALIA; FUNGI;

EID: 57749205956     PISSN: 0018067X     EISSN: 13652540     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/hdy.2008.84     Document Type: Short Survey

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