Marsupials in the age of genomics

Annual Review of Genomics and Human Genetics

Volumn 14, Issue , 2013, Pages 393-420

  Graves, Jennifer A Marshall ^a,b,c   Renfree, Marilyn B ^c  

^a LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Chromosome evolution; Epigenetics; Marsupial reproduction and development; Sex chromosomes; Short tailed opossum; Tammar wallaby

Indexed keywords

UNTRANSLATED RNA;

ANIMAL HEALTH; BANDICOOT; CHICKEN; CHROMOSOME G BAND; CHROMOSOME NUMBER; DASYURID; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; DNA FOOTPRINTING; ELEPHANT; EPIGENETICS; GENE CONTROL; GENE INACTIVATION; GENE MAPPING; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOME IMPRINTING; GENOMICS; HUMAN; KARYOTYPE; KOALA; MAMMARY GLAND; MARSUPIAL; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOUSE; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; OPOSSUM; PHYLOGENY; PLACENTAL MAMMALS; PLATYPUS; POTOROUS TRIDACTYLIS; REPRODUCTION; REVIEW; SARCOPHILUS HARRISII; SEX CHROMOSOME; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; SMINTHOPSIS CRASSICAUDATA; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TELOMERE; THERIAN; WALLABY; WILDLIFE CONSERVATION; X CHROMOSOME; X CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; GENOME; GENOMICS; MAMMALS; MARSUPIALIA;

EID: 84884312862     PISSN: 15278204     EISSN: 1545293X     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-genom-091212-153452     Document Type: Review

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