Table of Contents: Preface
Chapter 1. Sex Chromosomes, Gender Differences and Disease, pp. 1-24
(Lopes AM, Sargent CA, Affara NA, Amorim A, Instituto de Patologia e Imunologia Molecular da Universidade do Porto,Porto, Portugal, and others)
Chapter 2. Is There Always the Agreement of Chromosomal and Phenotypic Sex?, pp. 25-42
(Lidka Lisá, Institute of Endocrinology, Prague, Czech Republic, Jiří Lisý, Department of Imaging Methods, 2nd Medical Faculty, Charles University, Prague)
Chapter 3. Genomic Imprinting, X Chromosome Inactivation and Gestational Trophoblastic Diseases, pp. 43-62
(Pei Hui, Department of Pathology, Yale University School of Medicine)
Chapter 4. Insights into Mammalian X-linked Gene Function From X-Monosomy and X-Polysomy, pp. 63-77
(William Davies, Department of Psychological Medicine, School of Medicine and School of Psychology, University of Cardiff, U.K)
Chapter 5. The Fertile xy Females of Akodon (rodentia, sigmodontinae). The Case of a. Azarae and a. Boliviensis, pp. 79-94
(Lisanti J.A. , Sánchez A., Pinna-Senn E., Ortiz M.I. , Dalmasso G., Bella J.L., Departamento de Ciencias Naturales, Fac. Cs. Exactas, Fco.-Qcas. y Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Río Cuarto, Argentina, and others)
Chapter 6. Preimplantation Diagnosis For Aneuploidy Screening: A New Era Beyond Fish, pp. 95-122
(Pere Mir, Julio Martín, Carmen Rubio, IVI-Valencia (Instituto Valenciano de Infertilidad). Valencia. Spain, and others)
Chapter 7. The W Chromosome Evolution and Sex-linked Gene Expression in the Japanese Frog Rana Rugosa, pp. 123-140
(Ikuo Miura, Tariq Ezaz, Hiromi Ohtani, Yoshinobu Uno, Chizuko Nishida, Yoichi Matsuda and Jennifer A. Marshall Graves, Institute for Amphibian Biology, Graduate School of Science, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan, and others)
Chapter 8. The Y Chromosome of Drosophila Melanogaster and The Enigma of ‘Functional Heterochromatin’, pp. 141-163
(Roberto Piergentili, ; Sapienza – Università di Roma; Dept. of Genetics and Molecular Biology; Piazzale Aldo Moro, Rome, Italy)
Chapter 9. XY Male Pseudohermaphroditism, pp. 165-190
(R Payan-Carreira, MA Pires, J. Robalo Silva, CECAV, Univ. Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro, Vila Real, Portugal, and others)
Chapter 10. Genetics And Epigenetics Variation In The Sex Chromosomes And Their Impact On Morphological Changes And Parapatric Speciation: Species Of The Genus Mepraia In Chile (Hemiptera: Reduviidae) A Case Study, pp. 191-206
(Daniel Frías L, Instituto de Entomología, Universidad Metropolitana de Ciencias de la Educación, Santiago, Chile)
Chapter 11. Compensation Contemplation, pp. 207-224
(James A. Birchler, Division of Biological Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO)
Chapter 12. Dosage Compensation: From Mice to Humans to Birds and Back Again, pp. 225-257
(Ester Silveira Ramos and Susana M. Chuva de Sousa Lopes, Department of Genetics, School of Medicine of Ribeirão Preto, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil, and others)
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