Evolution of genomic imprinting: Insights from marsupials and monotremes

Annual Review of Genomics and Human Genetics

Volumn 10, Issue , 2009, Pages 241-262

  Renfree, Marilyn B ^a,b   Hore, Timothy A ^a,c   Shaw, Geoffrey ^a,b   Marshall Graves, Jennifer A ^a,c   Pask, Andrew J ^a,b,d  

^a ARC Center of Excellence for Kangaroo Genomics   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain; Comparative genomics; Marsupials; Monotremes; Placenta; Retrotransposons

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EMBRYO; CELL CYCLE; DEFENSE MECHANISM; DNA METHYLATION; DNA TRANSPOSITION; EGG; FERTILIZATION; GENE CLUSTER; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOME IMPRINTING; GERM CELL; HUMAN; MAMMALIAN GENETICS; MARSUPIAL; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MONOTREMATE; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT SUPPLY; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; PLACENTA; REVIEW; SOMATIC CELL; SPERM; SPERMATOGENESIS; TRANSPOSON; VIVIPARITY;

ANIMALS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOMIC IMPRINTING; HUMANS; MARSUPIALIA; MONOTREMATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; REPRODUCTION;

EUTHERIA; MAMMALIA; METATHERIA; MONOTREMATA; THERIA;

EID: 70350231629     PISSN: 15278204     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-genom-082908-150026     Document Type: Review

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