Monotreme sex chromosomes - Implications for the evolution of amniote sex chromosomes

Reproduction, Fertility and Development

Volumn 21, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 943-951

  Waters, Paul D ^a   Marshall Graves, Jennifer A ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIRD; EVOLUTION; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC REGULATION; MONOTREMATE; NONHUMAN; ORTHOLOGY; PLACENTAL MAMMALS; PLATYPUS; REVIEW; SEX CHROMOSOME; SEX DETERMINATION; SNAKE; VERTEBRATE; X CHROMOSOME; Y CHROMOSOME;

AMNION; ANIMALS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; GENOME; HUMANS; MALE; MAMMALS; MONOTREMATA; PHYLOGENY; SEX CHROMOSOMES; VERTEBRATES;

AMNIOTA; AVES; MAMMALIA; MONOTREMATA; THERIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 71049178247     PISSN: 10313613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/RD09250     Document Type: Review

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