Sex-biased gene expression and evolution of the X chromosome in nematodes

Genetics

Volumn 197, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 865-883

  Albritton, Sarah Elizabeth ^a   Kranz, Anna Lena ^a   Rao, Prashant ^a   Kramer, Maxwell ^a   Dieterich, Christoph ^b   Ercan, Sevinç ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGY OF AGEING   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA;

ARTICLE; FEMALE; GENE DOSAGE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GONAD; MALE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; ORTHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SEQUENCE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; UPREGULATION; X CHROMOSOME; ANIMAL; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; CAENORHABDITIS; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HAPLOINSUFFICIENCY; HERMAPHRODITE; METABOLISM; PHYLOGENY; SEXISM; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; X CHROMOSOMAL INHERITANCE;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; GENE DOSAGE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENES, HELMINTH; GENES, X-LINKED; GONADS; HAPLOINSUFFICIENCY; HERMAPHRODITIC ORGANISMS; MALE; NEMATODA; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PHYLOGENY; SEXISM; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; X CHROMOSOME;

EID: 84904250154     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: 19432631     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.114.163311     Document Type: Article

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