Non-homologous sex chromosomes in two geckos (Gekkonidae: Gekkota) with female heterogamety

Cytogenetic and Genome Research

Volumn 143, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 251-258

  Matsubara, Kazumi ^a   Gamble, Tony ^c,d   Matsuda, Yoichi ^e   Zarkower, David ^c   Sarre, Stephen D ^a   Georges, Arthur ^a   Graves, Jennifer A Marshall ^a,b   Ezaz, Tariq ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANBERRA   (Australia)

^b LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c Department of Development ^*  (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^e NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chromosome paint; Cytogenetics; FISH; Homology; Reptilia

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; C BANDING; CHRISTINUS MARMORATUS; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CHROMOSOME MICRODISSECTION; CHROMOSOME PAINTING; CHROMOSOME PREPARATION; CHROMOSOME STRUCTURE; COMPARATIVE GENOMIC HYBRIDIZATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOGENETICS; FEMALE; GEKKO HOKOUENSIS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; MALE; MICRODISSECTION; NONHUMAN; REPTILE; SEX CHROMOSOME; SEX DETERMINATION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; STRUCTURAL HOMOLOGY; ANIMAL; CELL CULTURE; CHROMOSOME BANDING PATTERN; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENETICS; LIZARD; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

GEKKONIDAE; GEKKOTA; REPTILIA;

ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; CHROMOSOME BANDING; COMPARATIVE GENOMIC HYBRIDIZATION; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; LIZARDS; MALE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SEX CHROMOSOMES; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84908573395     PISSN: 14248581     EISSN: 1424859X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000366172     Document Type: Article

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