ReviewChromosome research : an international journal on the molecular, supramolecular and evolutionary aspects of chromosome biology2006
The dot chromosome of Drosophila: insights into chromatin states and their change over evolutionary time.
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- Low recombination rates in sexual species and sex-asex transitions.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2017Article
- Genomic changes following the reversal of a Y chromosome to an autosome in Drosophila pseudoobscura.Evolution; international journal of organic evolution · 2017Article
- Sensitivity of Allelic Divergence to Genomic Position: Lessons from the Drosophila tan Gene.G3 (Bethesda, Md.) · 2016Article
- Extensive duplication of the Wolbachia DNA in chromosome four of Drosophila ananassae.BMC genomics · 2014Article
- Recurrent turnover of chromosome-specific satellites in Drosophila.Genome biology and evolution · 2014Article
- Recent selection on the Y-to-dot translocation in Drosophila pseudoobscura.Molecular biology and evolution · 2014Article
- Transcriptome profiling of Nasonia vitripennis testis reveals novel transcripts expressed from the selfish B chromosome, paternal sex ratio.G3 (Bethesda, Md.) · 2013Article
- HP1a, Su(var)3-9, SETDB1 and POF stimulate or repress gene expression depending on genomic position, gene length and expression pattern in Drosophila melanogaster.Nucleic acids research · 2013Article
- HP1a recruitment to promoters is independent of H3K9 methylation in Drosophila melanogaster.PLoS genetics · 2012Article
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- Translocation of Y-linked genes to the dot chromosome in Drosophila pseudoobscura.Molecular biology and evolution · 2010Article
- Heterochromatin protein 1 (HP1) modulates replication timing of the Drosophila genome.Genome research · 2010Article
- Recombination yet inefficient selection along the Drosophila melanogaster subgroup's fourth chromosome.Molecular biology and evolution · 2010Article
- FISH mapping of microsatellite loci from Drosophila subobscura and its comparison to related species.Chromosome research : an international journal on the molecular, supramolecular and evolutionary aspects of chromosome biology · 2010Article
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Abstract
Historically, chromatin has been subdivided into heterochromatin, transcriptionally inactive regions that remain densely packaged throughout the cell cycle, and euchromatin, transcriptionally active regions that take on a diffuse appearance as the cell enters interphase. The banded portion of the small fourth chromosome (dot chromosome) of Drosophila melanogaster is unusual in exhibiting many characteristics of heterochromatic domains, and at the same time maintaining a gene density typical of euchromatin. Similar to genes embedded in pericentric heterochromatin, many of the dot chromosome genes have adapted to a heterochromatic environment. Little is known about the regulation of these genes and less about their evolution in a chromatin context. Interestingly, most of the genes from the D. melanogaster fourth chromosome remain clustered on a small chromosome throughout the genus Drosophila; yet the dot chromosome appears euchromatic in some species, such as D. virilis. Existing genomic sequence data allow an exploration of the underlying differences in DNA sequence organization between species. Here we review the available data describing the dot chromosome, which derives primarily from D. melanogaster. With its unusual and changing nature, the dot chromosome in the genus Drosophila provides a unique opportunity for the examination of transitions between chromatin states during evolution.
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