title: Sex-linked genes and linkage maps in amphibians.
abstract: This paper reviews sex-linked genes and linkage maps in amphibians. It appears that there is no common ancestral or conserved sex-linkage group in amphibians, whereas an important proportion of other linkage groups has been conserved in amphibians. Comparisons of amphibian linkage maps with those of fishes and mammals reveal several syntenic associations apparently conserved over a very long period of vertebrate divergence.
authors.affiliation: Laboratory for Amphibian Biology, Graduate School of Science, Hiroshima University, Higashihiroshima, Japan. msumida@hiroshima-u.ac.jp
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Sumida
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Nishioka1
mesh_terms: D000663:Amphibians / Q000235:genetics*; D000818:Animals; D002874:Chromosome Mapping; D005260:Female; D008040:Genetic Linkage; D008297:Male; D010802:Phylogeny; D011995:Recombination, Genetic; D012730:Sex Chromosomes / Q000235:genetics*; D019849:Sex Determination Processes