Sex Chromosome-wide Transcriptional Suppression and Compensatory Cis-Regulatory Evolution Mediate Gene Expression in the Drosophila Male Germline.

The evolution of heteromorphic sex chromosomes has repeatedly resulted in the evolution of sex chromosome-specific forms of regulation, including sex chromosome dosage compensation in the soma and meiotic sex chromosome inactivation in the germline. In the male germline of Drosophila melanogaster, a...

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Main Authors: Emily L Landeen, Christina A Muirhead, Lori Wright, Colin D Meiklejohn, Daven C Presgraves
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-07-01
Series:PLoS Biology
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.1002499