LACK OF DOSAGE COMPENSATION FOR AN AUTOSOMAL GENE RELOCATED TO THE X CHROMOSOME IN DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER

1 Department of Zoology and Genetics Curriculum, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27514

Aldehyde oxidase activity has been measured in flies with the structural gene for this enzyme translocated to the X chromosome. These measurements are presented as experimental evidence that, in Drosophila melanogaster, an autosomal gene relocated to the X chromosome is not dosage compensated.

Submitted on September 16, 1976
Revised on November 29, 1976




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Gene dosage compensation and the evolution of sex chromosomes
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