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ABSTRACT:
ORGANISM(S): Drosophila melanogaster
SUBMITTER: Pan-Pan Jiang
PROVIDER: E-GEOD-21587 | biostudies-arrayexpress |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress
Jiang Pan-Pan PP Hartl Daniel L DL Lemos Bernardo B
Genetics 20100615 1
The Y chromosome, inherited without meiotic recombination from father to son, carries relatively few genes in most species. This is consistent with predictions from evolutionary theory that nonrecombining chromosomes lack variation and degenerate rapidly. However, recent work has suggested a dynamic role for the Y chromosome in gene regulation, a finding with important implications for spermatogenesis and male fitness. We studied Y chromosomes from two populations of Drosophila melanogaster that ...[more]