Disruption of FEM1C-W gene in zebra finch: Evolutionary insights on avian ZW genes

Chromosoma

Volumn 118, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 323-334

  Itoh, Yuichiro ^a   Kampf, Kathy ^a   Arnold, Arthur P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANKYRIN; METHIONINE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; EVOLUTIONARY HOMOLOGY; EXON; FEMALE; FIBROBLAST; FINCH; FOWL; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE INTERACTION; GENE LOSS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC CONSERVATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POINT MUTATION; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SEX CHROMOSOME; SEX DETERMINATION; SEX LINKAGE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; VERTEBRATE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; CHICKENS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; FINCHES; HUMANS; MALE; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEX CHROMOSOMES;

AVES; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; PASSERIFORMES; TAENIOPYGIA GUTTATA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 67349186611     PISSN: 00095915     EISSN: 14320886     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00412-008-0199-8     Document Type: Article

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