Chromosomes, conflict, and epigenetics: Chromosomal speciation revisited

Annual Review of Genomics and Human Genetics

Volumn 11, Issue , 2010, Pages 291-316

  Brown, Judith D ^a   O'Neill, Rachel J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

centromere; heterochromatin; hybrid dysgenesis; meiotic drive; reproductive incompatibility; small RNA; underdominance

Indexed keywords

DNA BINDING PROTEIN;

CELL CYCLE PROGRESSION; CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOME; CHROMOSOME 16; CHROMOSOME 6; CHROMOSOME 7; CHROMOSOME DELETION; CHROMOSOME FRAGILITY; CHROMOSOME REARRANGEMENT; DNA MODIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; DROSOPHILA; EPIGENETICS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GRASSHOPPER; HETEROCHROMATIN; HYBRID DYSGENESIS; KARYOTYPE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; REPRODUCTIVE ISOLATION; REVIEW; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; TELOMERE; THEORY; X CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CHROMOSOMES; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GENETIC SPECIATION; HUMANS; KARYOTYPING; PLANTS;

EID: 77957898047     PISSN: 15278204     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-genom-082509-141554     Document Type: Review

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