Complete Dosage Compensation in Anopheles stephensi and the Evolution of Sex-Biased Genes in Mosquitoes

Genome Biology and Evolution

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 1914-1924

  Jiang, Xiaofang ^a   Biedler, James K ^a   Qi, Yumin ^a   Hall, Andrew Brantley ^a   Tu, Zhijian ^a  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

comparative transcriptomes; gene duplication; RNA seq; sex specific expression

Indexed keywords

AEDES; ANIMAL; ANOPHELES; FEMALE; GENE; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; INSECT CHROMOSOME; MALE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; X CHROMOSOMAL INHERITANCE; X CHROMOSOME;

AEDES; ANIMALS; ANOPHELES; CHROMOSOMES, INSECT; DOSAGE COMPENSATION, GENETIC; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; GENE DUPLICATION; GENES, INSECT; GENES, X-LINKED; MALE; X CHROMOSOME;

EID: 84964694346     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17596653     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/gbe/evv115     Document Type: Article

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