Deep ancestry of mammalian X chromosome revealed by comparison with the basal tetrapod Xenopus tropicalis

BMC Genomics

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Mácha, Jaroslav ^a   Teichmanová, Radka ^a   Sater, Amy K ^b   Wells, Dan E ^b   Tlapáková, Tereza ^a   Zimmerman, Lyle B ^c   Krylov, Vladimír ^a  

^a CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^b University of Houston   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Evolution; Genome; Synteny; TAG; X chromosome; Xenopus

Indexed keywords

AMNIOTE; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOMAL LOCALIZATION; CHROMOSOME 1; CHROMOSOME 2; CHROMOSOME 4; CHROMOSOME 7; CHROMOSOME 8; EVOLUTION; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENOME ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; X CHROMOSOME; XENOPUS TROPICALIS;

ANIMALS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HUMANS; MAMMALS; SYNTENY; X CHROMOSOME; XENOPUS;

EID: 84867625406     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-13-315     Document Type: Article

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