The Biology and Evolution of Mammalian y Chromosomes

Annual Review of Genetics

Volumn 49, Issue , 2015, Pages 507-527

  Hughes, Jennifer F ^a   Page, David C ^a  

^a WHITEHEAD INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

MSY; Sex chromosomes; Sex determination; Sexual dimorphism; Spermatogenesis; Turner syndrome

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOSOME; GENITAL SYSTEM; HUMAN; MAMMAL; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX CHROMOSOME; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEX TRANSFORMATION; SPERMATOGENESIS; SRY GENE; TESTIS; TURNER SYNDROME; Y CHROMOSOME; ANIMAL; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; HEARING DISORDER; MALE; MOUSE; PHYSIOLOGY; Y CHROMOSOME LINKED DISORDER;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, Y; GENETIC DISEASES, Y-LINKED; HEARING DISORDERS; HUMANS; MALE; MAMMALS; MICE; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS; TURNER SYNDROME; Y CHROMOSOME;

EID: 84948744723     PISSN: 00664197     EISSN: 15452948     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-genet-112414-055311     Document Type: Article

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