The sex-specific region of sex chromosomes in animals and plants

Chromosome Research

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 57-69

  Gschwend, Andrea R ^a   Weingartner, Laura A ^b   Moore, Richard C ^c   Ming, Ray ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dosage compensation; gene trafficking; microRNA; sex chromosome evolution; transposable elements

Indexed keywords

MICRORNA;

ARTICLE; CHICKEN; CHIMPANZEE; GENE DOSAGE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE SILENCING; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PLANT CHROMOSOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX CHROMOSOME; SEX DETERMINATION; TRANSPOSON; Y CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALS; CHROMOSOME STRUCTURES; CHROMOSOMES, PLANT; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DOSAGE COMPENSATION, GENETIC; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIATION; HUMANS; MALE; PLANTS; SELECTION, GENETIC; SEX CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; SEX CHROMOSOMES; SEX DETERMINATION PROCESSES; TESTIS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84857245265     PISSN: 09673849     EISSN: 15736849     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10577-011-9255-y     Document Type: Article

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