Sex determination in Madagascar geckos of the genus Paroedura (Squamata: Gekkonidae): are differentiated sex chromosomes indeed so evolutionary stable?

Chromosome Research

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 441-452

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

^a CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

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

Author keywords

FISH; heterochromatin; ITSs; reptiles; sex chromosomes; sex determination

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOSOME; CHROMOSOME PREPARATION; COMPARATIVE GENOMIC HYBRIDIZATION; EVOLUTION; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE SEQUENCE; HETEROCHROMATIN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; KARYOTYPE; MADAGASCAR; METAPHASE CHROMOSOME; MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; PAROEDURA; PHYLOGENY; SEX CHROMOSOME; SEX DETERMINATION; SEX RATIO; SQUAMATE; TELOMERE; ANIMAL; FEMALE; GENETICS; KARYOTYPING; LIZARD; MALE; SEX DETERMINATION PROCESS;

GEKKONIDAE; PAROEDURA; REPTILIA; SQUAMATA;

HETEROCHROMATIN;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; COMPARATIVE GENOMIC HYBRIDIZATION; FEMALE; HETEROCHROMATIN; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; KARYOTYPING; LIZARDS; MALE; PHYLOGENY; SEX CHROMOSOMES; SEX DETERMINATION PROCESSES; TELOMERE;

EID: 84916224935     PISSN: 09673849     EISSN: 15736849     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10577-014-9430-z     Document Type: Article

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