Unisexual reproduction among vertebrates

Trends in Genetics

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 81-88

  Neaves, William B ^a,c   Baumann, Peter ^a,b,d  

^a STOWERS INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^b HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI KANSAS CITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ALLELE; AMPHIBIA; CENTROSOME; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CHROMOSOME PAIRING; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA POLYMORPHISM; EVOLUTION; FISH; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HAPLOIDY; HETEROZYGOSITY; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY; HOMOZYGOTE; HYBRIDIZATION; LIZARD; MEIOSIS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; PARTHENOGENESIS; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; REPRODUCTION; REPTILE; REVIEW; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMALS; CHIMERA; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIATION; OVARY; PARTHENOGENESIS; PLOIDIES; VERTEBRATES;

AMPHIBIA; REPTILIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 79952106487     PISSN: 01689525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tig.2010.12.002     Document Type: Review

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