Female-biased expression on the X chromosome as a key step in sex chromosome evolution in threespine sticklebacks

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 27, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1495-1503

  Leder, Erica H ^a   Cano, Jose M ^b   Leinonen, Tuomas ^b   O'Hara, Robert B ^c   Nikinmaa, Mikko ^a   Primmer, Craig R ^a   Merilä, Juha ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^c BIODIVERSITY AND CLIMATE RESEARCH CENTRE BIK F   (Germany)

Author keywords

Gasterosteus aculeatus; Sex chromosome evolution; Sex biased expression; Threespine stickleback

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME 19; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FISH; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; MALE; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; SEX CHROMOSOME; SEX DETERMINATION; THREESPINE STICKLEBACK; X CHROMOSOME; Y CHROMOSOME; ANIMAL; DNA MICROARRAY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; SMEGMAMORPHA;

GASTEROSTEUS; GASTEROSTEUS ACULEATUS;

BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; MALE; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEX CHROMOSOMES; SMEGMAMORPHA; X CHROMOSOME; Y CHROMOSOME;

EID: 77953768324     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msq031     Document Type: Article

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