Function of the sex chromosomes in mammalian fertility

Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology

Volumn 3, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1-17

  Heard, Edith ^a   Turner, James ^b  

^a INSTITUT CURIE   (France)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MAMMALIA;

ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; FEMALE; FERTILITY; GAMETOGENESIS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HUMAN; INFERTILITY; MALE; MAMMAL; MEIOSIS; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; SEX CHROMOSOME; SEX DETERMINATION PROCESS; X CHROMOSOMAL INHERITANCE; X CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION; Y CHROMOSOMAL INHERITANCE;

ANIMALS; CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; FEMALE; FERTILITY; GAMETOGENESIS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENES, X-LINKED; GENES, Y-LINKED; HUMANS; INFERTILITY; MALE; MAMMALS; MEIOSIS; MODELS, GENETIC; SEX CHROMOSOMES; SEX DETERMINATION PROCESSES; X CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION;

EID: 84864779894     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19430264     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/cshperspect.a002675     Document Type: Article

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