Variability in sex-determining mechanisms influences genome complexity in reptilia

Cytogenetic and Genome Research

Volumn 127, Issue 2-4, 2010, Pages 242-248

  Janes, D E ^a   Organ, C L ^a   Edwards, S V ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Amniotes; Archosauromorpha; Hemizygosity; Heterogamety; Pseudoautosomal region; Sexual antagonism; Viviparity

Indexed keywords

AMNION CELL; CELL LINEAGE; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; GENOTYPE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPTILE; REVIEW; SEX CHROMOSOME; SEX DETERMINATION; SEXUAL SELECTION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; VIVIPARITY;

ANIMALS; EVOLUTION; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; GENOME; MALE; REPTILES; SEX DETERMINATION (GENETICS);

AMNIOTA; ARCHOSAUROMORPHA; REPTILIA;

EID: 77951825983     PISSN: 14248581     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000293283     Document Type: Review

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