The dragon lizard Pogona vitticeps has ZZ/ZW micro-sex chromosomes.

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Published in Chromosome Res on December 08, 2005

Authors

Tariq Ezaz1, Alexander E Quinn, Ikuo Miura, Stephen D Sarre, Arthur Georges, Jennifer A Marshall Graves

Author Affiliations

1: Comparative Genomics Group, Research School of Biological Sciences, The Australian National University, Canberra. Tariq.Ezaz@anu.edu.au

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