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ArticleG3 (Bethesda, Md.)2015

X Chromosome and Autosome Dosage Responses in Drosophila melanogaster Heads.

Zhen-Xia Chen, Brian Oliver

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Article in G3 (Bethesda, Md.), 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers.

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15citing papers in PubMed
2.7field-weighted citation impact, top 9% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

15 citing papers in PubMed, 19 citations in OpenAlex.

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  13. Dosage compensation of the sex chromosomes and autosomes.Seminars in cell & developmental biology · 2016
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  14. The importance of having two X chromosomes.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2016
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Zhen-Xia ChenSection of Developmental Genomics, Laboratory of Cellular and Developmental Biology, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0474-902X
Brian OliverSection of Developmental Genomics, Laboratory of Cellular and Developmental Biology, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892 briano@helix.nih.gov.
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases · USNational Institutes of Health · US

Funding

Drosophila Functional GenomicsZIADK015600 · NIDDK · NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DIABETES AND DIGESTIVE AND KIDNEY DISEASES · PI OLIVER, BRIAN · 2009 to 2025
$23.9M
Genomics Core FacilityZICDK071001 · NIDDK · NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DIABETES AND DIGESTIVE AND KIDNEY DISEASES · PI HANOVER, JOHN A. · 2009 to 2023
$16.6M
Intramural NIH HHS ZIA DK015600
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

X chromosome dosage compensation is required for male viability in Drosophila. Dosage compensation relative to autosomes is two-fold, but this is likely to be due to a combination of homeostatic gene-by-gene regulation and chromosome-wide regulation. We have baseline values for gene-by-gene dosage compensation on autosomes, but not for the X chromosome. Given the evolutionary history of sex chromosomes, these baseline values could differ. We used a series of deficiencies on the X and autosomes, along with mutations in the sex-determination gene transformer-2, to carefully measure the sex-independent X-chromosome response to gene dosage in adult heads by RNA sequencing. We observed modest and indistinguishable dosage compensation for both X chromosome and autosome genes, suggesting that the X chromosome is neither inherently more robust nor sensitive to dosage change.

Indexed as

Dosage Compensation, GeneticAnimalsChromosomes, InsectDatabases, GeneticDrosophila melanogasterFemaleHeadMaleMolecular Sequence DataSequence Analysis, RNAX Chromosomedosage compensationgene expressiongenetics of sexsegmental aneuploidysex chromosomessex determination

Identifiers

PMID25850426
PMCPMC4478536
OpenAlexW2112050013

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