Friday, August 10, 2007

[Paper] Chromosomal location and gene paucity of the male specific region on papaya Y chromosome

August 10th, 2007 by aerobe
作者:Qingyi Yu, Shaobin Hou, Roman Hobza, F. Alex Feltus, Xiue Wang, Weiwei Jin, Rachel L. Skelton, Andrea Blas, Cornelia
Lemke, Jimmy H. Saw, Paul H. Moore, Maqsudul Alam, Jiming Jiang, Andrew H. Paterson, Boris Vyskot and Ray Ming
出處: Mol Genet Genomics 2007, 278:177-185
說明:
許多開花植物的性染色體是同型的(homomorphic),木瓜為其中一種。作者欲找出木瓜的MSY (small male specific region of the hermaphrodite Y (Yh) chromosome)位於何處,並研究其基因組的特性。結果發現MSY位於木瓜Y染色體著絲點(centromere)附近,其序列具
有高密度的retroelement且序列有重複的現象。

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