Conflict on the sex chromosomes: Cause, effect, and complexity

Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology

Volumn 6, Issue 12, 2014, Pages

  Mank, Judith E ^a   Hosken, David J ^b   Wedell, Nina ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; REPRODUCTIVE FITNESS; SEX CHROMOSOME; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; DOSAGE COMPENSATION, GENETIC; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC FITNESS; MODELS, GENETIC; POPULATION DENSITY; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SELECTION, GENETIC; SEX CHROMOSOMES; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 84919359424     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19430264     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/cshperspect.a017715     Document Type: Article

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