Where Do Male Genes Live?
- 31 January 2003
- journal article
- editorial
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 299 (5607) , 670-671
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1082030
Abstract
One might predict that in males, genes that are expressed in male-specific tissues such as the testis would be found on the single X chromosome (the Y chromosome containing very few functional genes). Not so, explains Schlötterer in his Perspective, which discusses new work showing that in the fruit fly male-biased genes are found predominantly on the autosomes and not on the X chromosome (Parisi et al.).Keywords
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