Novel X-linked genes revealed by quantitative polymerase chain Reaction in the green anole, anolis carolinensis

G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics

Volumn 4, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 2107-2113

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

^a CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

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

Author keywords

Gene dosage; Genetics of sex; Lizard; qPCR; Sex chromosomes; Sex determination

Indexed keywords

CONTIG; GENOMIC DNA;

ANOLIS CAROLINENSIS; ARTICLE; CHICKEN; CHROMOSOME REARRANGEMENT; DNA CONTENT; FEMALE; GENE DOSAGE; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC LINKAGE; MALE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SEX DETERMINATION; X CHROMOSOME; Y CHROMOSOME; ANIMAL; GENETICS; LIZARD; SEX DIFFERENCE; X CHROMOSOMAL INHERITANCE;

ANOLIS CAROLINENSIS; SQUAMATA;

ANIMALS; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; FEMALE; GENE DOSAGE; GENES, X-LINKED; GENETIC LINKAGE; LIZARDS; MALE; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 84910650160     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21601836     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/g3.114.014084     Document Type: Article

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