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Variable dosage compensation is associated with female consequences of an X-linked, male-beneficial mutation.
Proceedings. Biological sciences - 31 Mar 2021
Rayner Jack G, Hitchcock Thomas J, Bailey Nathan W
Abstract excerpt
Recent theory has suggested that dosage compensation mediates sexual antagonism over X-linked genes. This process relies on the assumption that dosage compensation scales phenotypic effects between the sexes, which is largely untested. We evaluated this by quantifying transcriptome variation associated with a recently arisen, male-beneficial, X-linked mutation across tissues of the field cricket Teleogryllus...
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