Karyotypic analysis and FISH mapping of microsatellite motifs reveal highly differentiated XX/XY sex chromosomes in the pink-tailed worm-lizard (Aprasia parapulchella, Pygopodidae, Squamata)

Molecular Cytogenetics

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Matsubara, Kazumi ^a   Knopp, Theresa ^a   Sarre, Stephen D ^a   Georges, Arthur ^a   Ezaz, Tariq ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANBERRA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Reptile; Sex chromosome differentiation; Y chromosome degeneration

Indexed keywords

EID: 84890336146     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17558166     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1755-8166-6-60     Document Type: Article

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