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Gene dosage compensation in Drosophila melanogaster
1Department of Biology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 27514.
Advances in Genetics
|January 1, 1987
Abstract:
The comparative lack of sexual dimorphism of apricot and other [sex-linked] genes studied is due to "sex-limitation", i.e., to a compensatory influence of the dosage difference between the sexes in respect to other genes in the X-chromosome. The facts are of particular interest from an evolutionary standpoint.