Biology & Life Sciences

Open Highlights: Sex Chromosomes Do it Differently

Published December 20, 2016 Curated Collections

How do the sexes compensate for having different chromosome complements? This Open Highlights Collection assesses recent insights into the complex and diverse solutions that living things have found to this problem. Open Highlights use recent PLOS Biology research articles as keystones around which to nucleate a short synthesis of up to ten related research articles from other PLOS journals and from the wider Open Access corpus.

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10.1371/journal.pbio.2001096

PLOS Biology Sex Chromosomes Do It Differently
October 13, 2016 Lauren A. Richardson

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10.1371/journal.pbio.1002499

PLOS Biology Sex Chromosome-wide Transcriptional Suppression and Compensatory Cis-Regulatory Evolution Mediate Gene Expression in the Drosophila Male Germline
July 12, 2016 Emily L. Landeen, Christina A. Muirhead, Lori Wright, Colin D. Meiklejohn, Daven C. Presgraves

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10.1371/journal.pgen.1005461

PLOS Genetics Silencing of X-Linked MicroRNAs by Meiotic Sex Chromosome Inactivation
October 28, 2015 Hélène Royo, Hervé Seitz, Elias ElInati, Antoine H. F. M. Peters, Michael B. Stadler, James M. A. Turner
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10.1186/s12915-015-0215-4

BMC Biology Lack of sex chromosome specific meiotic silencing in platypus reveals origin of MSCI in therian mammals
December 10, 2015 Tasman J. DaishEmail author, Aaron E. Casey, Frank Grutzner
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10.1371/journal.pbio.1002315

PLOS Biology The Constrained Maximal Expression Level Owing to Haploidy Shapes Gene Content on the Mammalian X Chromosome
December 18, 2015 Laurence D. Hurst, Avazeh T. Ghanbarian, Alistair R. R. Forrest, FANTOM consortium , Lukasz Huminiecki
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10.1371/journal.pgen.1006120

PLOS Genetics Expansion of GA Dinucleotide Repeats Increases the Density of CLAMP Binding Sites on the X-Chromosome to Promote Drosophila Dosage Compensation
July 14, 2016 Guray Kuzu, Emily G. Kaye, Jessica Chery, Trevor Siggers, Lin Yang, Jason R. Dobson, Sonia Boor, Jacob Bliss, Wei Liu, Gerwald Jogl, Remo Rohs, Nadia D. Singh, Martha L. Bulyk, Michael Y. Tolstorukov, Erica Larschan
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PLOS Biology Numerous Transitions of Sex Chromosomes in Diptera
April 16, 2015 Beatriz Vicoso, Doris Bachtrog
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PLOS ONE Modulation of Heterochromatin by Male Specific Lethal Proteins and roX RNA in Drosophila melanogaster Males
October 15, 2015 S. Kiran Koya, Victoria H. Meller
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PLOS Genetics Sex Bias and Maternal Contribution to Gene Expression Divergence in Drosophila Blastoderm Embryos
October 20, 2015 Mathilde Paris, Jacqueline E. Villalta, Michael B. Eisen, Susan E. Lott
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10.1038/ncomms8720

Nature Communications Evolution of dosage compensation under sexual selection differs between X and Z chromosomes
March 16, 2015 Charles Mullon, Alison E. Wright, Max Reuter, Andrew Pomiankowski, Judith E. Mank
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PLOS ONE Dosage Compensation of X-Linked Muller Element F Genes but Not X-Linked Transgenes in the Australian Sheep Blowfly
October 27, 2015 Rebecca J. Linger, Esther J. Belikoff, Maxwell J. Scott