Marsupial sex chromosome behaviour during male meiosis

Marsupial Genetics and Genomics

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 187-206

  Fernández Donoso, Raúl ^a   Berríos, Soledad ^a   Rufas, Julio S ^b   Page, Jesús ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

^b UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Dense plate; Inactivation; Marsupial; Meiosis; Sex chromosomes; Synapsis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84892483973     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-90-481-9023-2_10     Document Type: Chapter

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