A primitive Y chromosome in papaya marks incipient sex chromosome evolution

Nature

Volumn 427, Issue 6972, 2004, Pages 348-352

  Liu, Zhiyong ^a   Moore, Paul H ^b   Ma, Hao ^a,c   Ackerman, Christine M ^a   Ragiba, Makandar ^a   Yu, Qingyi ^a,c   Pearl, Heather M ^a   Kim, Minna S ^a   Charlton, Joseph W ^a   Stiles, John I ^d   Zee, Francis T ^b   Paterson, Andrew H ^e   Ming, Ray ^a  

^a HAWAII AGRICULTURE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^d Intgd Coffee Technol Incorporated   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; FRUITS; GENETIC ENGINEERING; PLANTS (BOTANY);

SEX DETERMINATION;

GENES;

CHROMOSOME; EVOLUTION; SEX DETERMINATION;

AMPLIFIED FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ARTIFICIAL CHROMOSOME; CHROMOSOME DELETION; CHROMOSOME INSERTION; CHROMOSOME INVERSION; CONTIG MAPPING; DROSOPHILA; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; HETEROZYGOSITY; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PAPAYA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE CHARACTERIZED AMPLIFIED REGION; SEX CHROMOSOME; SEX DETERMINATION; SILENE; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; X CHROMOSOME; Y CHROMOSOME;

ALLELES; BASE SEQUENCE; CARICA; CHROMOSOMES, PLANT; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CONTIG MAPPING; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES, PLANT; GENETIC MARKERS; HERMAPHRODITISM; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; SEX DETERMINATION (GENETICS); Y CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALIA; ARABIDOPSIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CARICA PAPAYA; EMBRYOPHYTA; INSERTION SEQUENCES; SILENE;

EID: 9144264159     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature02228     Document Type: Article

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