Dosage Compensation: How to Be Compensated…Or Not?

Jingyue Duan; Erica N Larschan

doi:10.1016/j.cub.2019.09.065

Dosage Compensation: How to Be Compensated…Or Not?

Curr Biol. 2019 Dec 2;29(23):R1229-R1231. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2019.09.065.

Authors

Jingyue Duan¹, Erica N Larschan²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Molecular Biology, Cellular Biology and Biochemistry, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912, USA.
² Department of Molecular Biology, Cellular Biology and Biochemistry, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912, USA. Electronic address: erica_larschan@brown.edu.

Abstract

Diverse dosage compensation mechanisms have evolved across species to equalize gene expression between sexes and between the sex chromosomes and autosomes. New results show that two opposite modes of dosage compensation can occur within one species, the monarch butterfly.

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MeSH terms

Animals
Butterflies / genetics*
Dosage Compensation, Genetic
Gene Expression
Sex Chromosomes

Grants and funding

R35 GM126994/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/United States