The evolutionary causes and consequences of sex-biased gene expression

Nature Reviews Genetics

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 83-87

  Parsch, John ^a   Ellegren, Hans ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GASTEROSTEUS ACULEATUS; GENE DOSAGE; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SEQUENCE; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; SEX CHROMOSOMAL INHERITANCE; SEX DIFFERENCE; TRIBOLIUM CASTANEUM;

ANIMALS; DOSAGE COMPENSATION, GENETIC; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; MALE; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SEX CHROMOSOMES;

EID: 84872546066     PISSN: 14710056     EISSN: 14710064     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrg3376     Document Type: Article

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