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Dosage compensation and demasculinization of X chromosomes in Drosophila

The X chromosome of Drosophila shows a deficiency of genes with male-biased expression [1–4], while mammalian X chromosomes are enriched for both spermatogenesis genes expressed pre-meiosis and multi-copy testis genes [5, 6]. Meiotic X inactivation and sexual antagonism can only partly account for t...

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Published in:Curr Biol
Main Authors: Bachtrog, Doris, Toda, Nicholas RT, Lockton, Steven
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: 2010
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4511158/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20705467
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2010.06.076
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