Sex Determination: Why So Many Ways of Doing It?

PLoS Biology

Volumn 12, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 1-13

  Bachtrog, Doris ^a   Mank, Judith E ^b,o   Peichel, Catherine L ^c,o   Kirkpatrick, Mark ^d,o   Otto, Sarah P ^e,o   Ashman, Tia Lynn ^f,o   Hahn, Matthew W ^g,o   Kitano, Jun ^h,o   Mayrose, Itay ^i,o   Ming, Ray ^j,o   Perrin, Nicolas ^k,o   Ross, Laura ^l,o   Valenzuela, Nicole ^m,o   Vamosi, Jana C ^n,o   Blackmon, Heath ^o   Goldberg, Emma E ^o   Pennell, Matthew W ^o  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^f UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^g INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GENETICS   (Japan)

ⁱ TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^j UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^k UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^l UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^m IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

ⁿ UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^o NONE

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME NUMBER; DIPLOIDY; GAMETE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; GERMLINE STEM CELL; HERMAPHRODITE; HUMAN; MATING SYSTEM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MULTIFACTORIAL INHERITANCE; NONHUMAN; REPRODUCTION; SEX DETERMINATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOMATIC CELL GENETICS; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; TAXONOMIC IDENTIFICATION; X CHROMOSOME; Y CHROMOSOME;

EID: 84905366183     PISSN: 15449173     EISSN: 15457885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1001899     Document Type: Article

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