Nuclear genes with sex bias in Ruditapes philippinarum (Bivalvia, veneridae): Mitochondrial inheritance and sex determination in DUI species

Journal of Experimental Zoology Part B: Molecular and Developmental Evolution

Volumn 320, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 442-454

  Milani, Liliana ^a   Ghiselli, Fabrizio ^a   Nuzhdin, Sergey V ^b   Passamonti, Marco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; BIVALVIA; METAZOA; VENERIDAE; VENERUPIS (RUDITAPES) PHILIPPINARUM;

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; TRANSCRIPTOME;

ANIMAL; BIVALVE; CYTOLOGY; EMBRYOLOGY; FEMALE; GENETICS; MALE; MITOCHONDRIAL GENE; MITOCHONDRION; OOCYTE; PHYSIOLOGY; SEX DETERMINATION PROCESS; SEX RATIO; SPERMATOZOON; UBIQUITINATION;

ANIMALS; BIVALVIA; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; FEMALE; GENES, MITOCHONDRIAL; MALE; MITOCHONDRIA; OVUM; SEX DETERMINATION PROCESSES; SEX RATIO; SPERMATOZOA; TRANSCRIPTOME; UBIQUITINATION;

EID: 84885472411     PISSN: 15525007     EISSN: 15525015     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jez.b.22520     Document Type: Article

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