Amplification of microsatellite repeat motifs is associated with the evolutionary differentiation and heterochromatinization of sex chromosomes in Sauropsida

Chromosoma

Volumn 125, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 111-123

  Matsubara, Kazumi ^a,d   O’Meally, Denis ^a   Azad, Bhumika ^a,b   Georges, Arthur ^a   Sarre, Stephen D ^a   Graves, Jennifer A Marshall ^a,c   Matsuda, Yoichi ^d   Ezaz, Tariq ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANBERRA   (Australia)

^b Australian National University   (Australia)

^c LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICROSATELLITE DNA; HETEROCHROMATIN;

APRASIA PARAPULCHELLA; ARTICLE; BASSIANA DUPERREYI; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CHELODINA LONGICOLLIS; CHROMOSOME MAP; EMYDURA MACQUARII; GALLUS GALLUS; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENETIC PARAMETERS; HETEROCHROMATINIZATION; MICROSATELLITE REPEAT MOTIF; NONHUMAN; NOTECHIS SCUTATUS; PHYLOGENY; POGONA VITTICEPS; SAUROPSID; SEX CHROMOSOME; Y CHROMOSOME; ANIMAL; CHICKEN; CHROMOSOMAL MAPPING; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HETEROCHROMATIN; MALE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; REPTILE;

ANIMALS; CHICKENS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; DOSAGE COMPENSATION, GENETIC; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; HETEROCHROMATIN; MALE; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; REPTILES; SEX CHROMOSOMES;

EID: 84958863238     PISSN: 00095915     EISSN: 14320886     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00412-015-0531-z     Document Type: Article

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