A gene catalogue of the euchromatic Male-Specific region of the horse Y chromosome: Comparison with human and other mammals

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 7, 2011, Pages

  Paria, Nandina ^a   Raudsepp, Terje ^a   Wilkerson, Alison J ^a   O'Brien, Patricia C M ^b   Ferguson Smith, Malcom A ^b   Love, Charles C ^a   Arnold, Carolyn ^a   Rakestraw, Peter ^a   Murphy, William J ^a   Chowdhary, Bhanu P ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; GENOMIC DNA; PLASMID DNA; MESSENGER RNA;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ARTIFICIAL CHROMOSOME; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CHROMOSOME STRUCTURE; CONTIG MAPPING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA CONTENT; DNA DETERMINATION; DONKEY; EUCHROMATIC MALE SPECIFIC CHROMOSOME REGION; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE DOSAGE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HORSE; HUMAN; MALE; MALE FERTILITY; MAMMAL; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; ORTHOLOGY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPECIES COMPARISON; SPERMATOGENESIS; STALLION; TESTIS; Y CHROMOSOME; ANIMAL; CAT; CATTLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EUCHROMATIN; FERTILITY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOUSE; PHYSIOLOGY; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; X CHROMOSOME;

EQUIDAE; EQUUS ASINUS; EUTHERIA; MAMMALIA; PERISSODACTYLA; PRIMATES; RODENTIA;

ANIMALS; CATS; CATTLE; CONTIG MAPPING; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; EUCHROMATIN; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; FERTILITY; GENE DOSAGE; HORSES; HUMANS; MALE; MICE; OPEN READING FRAMES; RNA, MESSENGER; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; TESTIS; X CHROMOSOME; Y CHROMOSOME;

EID: 79960707254     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0021374     Document Type: Article

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