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Dichotomy of dosage compensation along the neo Z chromosome of the monarch butterfly

Mechanisms of sex chromosome dosage compensation (SCDC) differ strikingly among animals. In Drosophila flies, chromosome-wide transcription is doubled from the single X chromosome in hemizygous (XY) males whereas in Caenorhabditis nematodes, expression is halved for both X copies in homozygous (XX)...

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Published in:Curr Biol
Main Authors: Gu, Liuqi, Reilly, Patrick F., Lewis, James J., Reed, Robert D., Andolfatto, Peter, Walters, James R.
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: 2019
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6901105/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31735674
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2019.09.056
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