Heteromorphic sex chromosomes: Navigating meiosis without a homologous partner

Molecular Reproduction and Development

Volumn 78, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 623-632

  Checchi, Paula M ^a   Engebrecht, Joanne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIRD; CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EVOLUTIONARY HOMOLOGY; MAMMAL; MEIOSIS; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEX CHROMOSOME; SILENCER ELEMENT;

ANIMALS; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; FEMALE; GENE SILENCING; HUMANS; MALE; MEIOSIS; SEX CHROMOSOMES;

AVES; MAMMALIA; NEMATODA; SYNAPSIS;

EID: 80052780445     PISSN: 1040452X     EISSN: 10982795     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrd.21369     Document Type: Review

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