Sex chromosome-to-autosome transposition events counter Y-chromosome gene loss in mammals

Genome Biology

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Hughes, Jennifer F ^a   Skaletsky, Helen ^a,b   Koutseva, Natalia ^a   Pyntikova, Tatyana ^a   Page, David C ^a,b,c  

^a WHITEHEAD INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^b HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INITIATION FACTOR 1; INITIATION FACTOR 2; SUMO 1 PROTEIN; EUKARYOTIC PEPTIDE INITIATION FACTOR-1A; UBIQUITIN PROTEIN LIGASE;

AMELY GENE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOSOME; CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION; DNA TRANSPOSITION; EIF1A GENE; EIF1AY GENE; EIF2S3 GENE; EIF2S3Y GENE; FEMALE; GENE; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCATION; GENE LOSS; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC LINKAGE; KDM5D GENE; MALE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; RPS4 GENE; RPS4Y GENE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEX CHROMOSOME; SQUIRREL MONKEY; UBA1 GENE; UBA1Y GENE; USP9Y GENE; X CHROMOSOME; Y CHROMOSOME; ANIMAL; BOVINE; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE TRANSLOCATION; GENETICS; GENOMICS; HUMAN; MAMMAL; METABOLISM; MOUSE; OPOSSUM; PAN TROGLODYTES; PHYLOGENY; RAT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEX CHROMOSOME ABERRATION;

BOS; MAMMALIA; MARMOSETS; METATHERIA; RATTUS; RODENTIA;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; EUKARYOTIC INITIATION FACTOR-1; GENE DELETION; GENOMICS; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; MAMMALS; MICE; OPOSSUMS; PAN TROGLODYTES; PHYLOGENY; RATS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; SEX CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; TRANSLOCATION, GENETIC; UBIQUITIN-ACTIVATING ENZYMES; Y CHROMOSOME;

EID: 84939141047     PISSN: 14747596     EISSN: 1474760X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13059-015-0667-4     Document Type: Article

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