The Conflict within and the Escalating War between the Sex Chromosomes

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2012, Pages

  Good, Jeffrey M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SHORT HAIRPIN RNA;

ARTICLE; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; COPY NUMBER VARIATION; EPIGENETICS; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC SELECTION; GENOME ANALYSIS; MALE STERILITY; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; REPRODUCTION; SEGREGATION DISTORTION; SEX CHROMOSOME; SEX LINKAGE; SLX GENE; SLY GENE; SPERMATOGENESIS; X CHROMOSOME; Y CHROMOSOME;

ADAPTOR PROTEINS, SIGNAL TRANSDUCING; ANIMALS; FEMALE; MALE; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PROTEINS; X CHROMOSOME; Y CHROMOSOME;

EID: 84866954252     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1002955     Document Type: Article

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