The Epigenome of Evolving Drosophila Neo-Sex Chromosomes: Dosage Compensation and Heterochromatin Formation

PLoS Biology

Volumn 11, Issue 11, 2013, Pages

  Zhou, Qi ^a   Ellison, Christopher E ^a   Kaiser, Vera B ^a   Alekseyenko, Artyom A ^b,c   Gorchakov, Andrey A ^b,d   Bachtrog, Doris ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR BIOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA MIRANDA; EPIGENETICS; FEMALE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HETEROCHROMATIN; INDEL MUTATION; MALE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NEO SEX CHROMOSOME; NONHUMAN; POINT MUTATION; SEX CHROMOSOME; X CHROMOSOME; Y CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; DOSAGE COMPENSATION, GENETIC; DROSOPHILA; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HETEROCHROMATIN; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE ANNOTATION; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SEX CHROMOSOMES;

EID: 84887782395     PISSN: 15449173     EISSN: 15457885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1001711     Document Type: Article

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