Article
Compensatory cis-trans evolution and the dysregulation of gene expression in interspecific hybrids of Drosophila.
Genetics - 1 Dec 2005
Landry Christian R, Wittkopp Patricia J, Taubes Clifford H, Ranz Jose M, Clark Andrew G, Hartl Daniel L
Abstract excerpt
Hybrids between species are often characterized by novel gene-expression patterns. A recent study on allele-specific gene expression in hybrids between species of Drosophila revealed cases in which cis- and trans-regulatory elements within species had coevolved in such a way that changes in cis-regulatory elements are compensated by changes in trans-regulatory elements. We hypothesized that such coevolution...
Topics
- Alleles
- Animals
- Drosophila
- Evolution, Molecular
- Gene Expression Regulation
- Hybridization, Genetic
- Models, Genetic
- Polymerase Chain Reaction
- Regulatory Elements, Transcriptional
