Evolution of vertebrate sex chromosomes and dosage compensation

Nature Reviews Genetics

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 33-46

  Graves, Jennifer A Marshall ^a,b  

^a LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; AUTOSOME; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; DNA METHYLATION; FISH; GENE DOSAGE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE SILENCING; HAPLOINSUFFICIENCY; HETEROZYGOTE; HISTONE MODIFICATION; MARSUPIAL; MEIOSIS; MONOTREMATE; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PLACENTAL MAMMALS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RNA STABILITY; SEX CHROMOSOME; SEX DETERMINATION; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; SNAKE; SRY GENE; UPREGULATION; VERTEBRATE; X CHROMOSOME; X CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION; Y CHROMOSOME; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; GENETICS; HUMAN; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION;

ANIMALS; DOSAGE COMPENSATION, GENETIC; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; SEX CHROMOSOMES;

EID: 84951569428     PISSN: 14710056     EISSN: 14710064     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrg.2015.2     Document Type: Review

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