Dosage Compensation of X-Linked Muller Element F Genes but Not X-Linked Transgenes in the Australian Sheep Blowfly.
In most animals that have X and Y sex chromosomes, chromosome-wide mechanisms are used to balance X-linked Pyjamas gene expression in males and females.In the fly Drosophila melanogaster, the dosage compensation mechanism also generally extends to X-linked transgenes.Over 70 transgenic lines of the Australian sheep blowfly Lucilia cuprina have been