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. 2009 Nov;5(11):e1000724.
doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000724. Epub 2009 Nov 20.

X chromosome: expression and escape

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X chromosome: expression and escape

John Parsch. PLoS Genet. 2009 Nov.
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Figure 1. The X chromosome and autosomes of Drosophila melanogaster differ in retrogene and male-biased gene content.
(A) Relative proportions of retrogenes that have moved from the X chromosome to the autosomes (X→A), the autosomes to the X chromosome (A→X), or from one autosome to another (A→A). The dashed line indicates the expected (random) proportion. Data are from . (B) The proportion of X-linked genes (relative to the random expectation; dashed line) for male-biased genes of five categories, including those expressed in whole adult males, testes, somatic male tissues, accessory glands (AG), and sperm. Data are from ,,. (C) Complementary expression of X-linked parental genes (black) and their autosomal retroposed copies (red) during the mitosis and meiosis stages of spermatogenesis. Data are from .

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