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TRENDS IN GENETICS
卷 25, 期 5, 页码 226-233出版社
ELSEVIER SCIENCE LONDON
DOI: 10.1016/j.tig.2009.03.005
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- Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council [BB/H002006/1] Funding Source: Medline
In species with highly differentiated sex chromosomes, imbalances in gene dosage between the sexes can affect overall organismal fitness. Regulatory mechanisms were discovered in several unrelated animals, which counter gene-dose differences between females and males, and these early findings suggested that dosage-compensating mechanisms were required for sex-chromosome evolution. However, recent reports in birds and moths contradict this view because these animals locally compensate only a few genes on the sex chromosomes, leaving the majority with different expression levels in males and females. These findings warrant a re-examination of the evolutionary forces underlying dosage compensation.
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