Sequencing the mouse y chromosome reveals convergent gene acquisition and amplification on both sex chromosomes

Cell

Volumn 159, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 800-813

  Soh, Y Q Shirleen ^a,b   Alföldi, Jessica ^a,b,g   Pyntikova, Tatyana ^a   Brown, Laura G ^a,c   Graves, Tina ^d   Minx, Patrick J ^d   Fulton, Robert S ^d   Kremitzki, Colin ^d   Koutseva, Natalia ^a   Mueller, Jacob L ^a,h   Rozen, Steve ^a,i   Hughes, Jennifer F ^a   Owens, Elaine ^e   Womack, James E ^e   Murphy, William J ^e   Cao, Qing ^f   De Jong, Pieter ^f   Warren, Wesley C ^d   Wilson, Richard K ^d   Skaletsky, Helen ^a,c   Page, David C ^a,b,c   more..

^a WHITEHEAD INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OAKLAND   (United States)

^g BROAD INSTITUTE OF MIT AND HARVARD   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

ⁱ DUKE NUS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUTOSOME; C57BL 6 MOUSE; CENTROMERE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EUCHROMATIN; EXPERIMENTAL MOUSE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FEMALE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; MALE; MAMMAL; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOUSE; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MUS MUSCULUS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIMATE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SEX CHROMOSOME; X CHROMOSOME; Y CHROMOSOME; ANIMAL; BACTERIAL ARTIFICIAL CHROMOSOME; C57BL MOUSE; CHROMOSOME; DNA SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; HUMAN; PHYLOGENY;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOMES, ARTIFICIAL, BACTERIAL; CHROMOSOMES, MAMMALIAN; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; PHYLOGENY; PRIMATES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; X CHROMOSOME; Y CHROMOSOME;

EID: 84910036383     PISSN: 00928674     EISSN: 10974172     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2014.09.052     Document Type: Article

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