Cretaceous park of sex determination: Sex chromosomes are conserved across iguanas

Biology Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Rovatsos, Michail ^a   Pokorná, Martina ^a,b   Altmanová, Marie ^a   Kratochvíl, Lukáš ^a  

^a CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^b INSTITUTE OF ANIMAL PHYSIOLOGY AND GENETICS   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Anolis; Lizard; Male heterogamety; Molecular sexing; Pleurodonta; QPCR

Indexed keywords

CHROMOSOME; CRETACEOUS; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; GENETIC STRUCTURE; LIZARD; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEX DETERMINATION; THERMOREGULATION;

ANIMAL; ANOLIS; ARTICLE; FEMALE; GENETICS; IGUANIDAE; LIZARD; MALE; MALE HETEROGAMETY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR SEXING; PHYLOGENY; PLEURODONTA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; QPCR; SEX CHROMOSOME; SEX DETERMINATION PROCESS;

ANOLIS; LIZARD; MALE HETEROGAMETY; MOLECULAR SEXING; PLEURODONTA; QPCR;

ANIMALS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; IGUANAS; MALE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEX CHROMOSOMES; SEX DETERMINATION PROCESSES;

EID: 84897974902     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2013.1093     Document Type: Article

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