Meiotic silencing, infertility and X chromosome evolution

Epigenomics

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 301-318

  Turner, James M A ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-9187-2_17     Document Type: Chapter

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