Y-chromosome evolution: Emerging insights into processes of Y-chromosome degeneration

Nature Reviews Genetics

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 113-124

  Bachtrog, Doris ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA SEQUENCE; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA ALBOMICANS; DROSOPHILA MIRANDA; GENE CONVERSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENOME ANALYSIS; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; Y CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALS; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, Y; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE CONVERSION; HUMANS; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; MODELS, GENETIC; PAN TROGLODYTES; PLANTS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SEX CHROMOSOMES; Y CHROMOSOME;

PRIMATES;

EID: 84872503128     PISSN: 14710056     EISSN: 14710064     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrg3366     Document Type: Review

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