The ZW micro-sex chromosomes of the chinese soft-shelled turtle (pelodiscus sinensis, trionychidae, testudines) have the same origin as chicken chromosome 15

Cytogenetic and Genome Research

Volumn 125, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 125-131

  Kawagoshi, T ^a   Uno, Y ^a   Matsubara, K ^b   Matsuda, Y ^b   Nishida, C ^a,b  

^a Biosystems Science Course   (Japan)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chicken; Chromosome homology; Chromosome rearrangement; Comparative mapping; FISH; Reptile; Sex chromosome; Sex determination; Turtle; ZW

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; GENE PRODUCT; MERLIN; PROTEIN GIT2; PROTEIN SBNO1; PROTEIN SF3A1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME 15; FEMALE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARACENTRIC CHROMOSOME INVERSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX CHROMOSOME; TURTLE;

ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; CHICKENS; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; FEMALE; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; MALE; SEX CHROMOSOMES; TURTLES;

GALLUS GALLUS; PELODISCUS SINENSIS; REPTILIA; TESTUDINES; TRIONYCHIDAE;

EID: 70249150428     PISSN: 14248581     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000227837     Document Type: Article

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