Dosage compensation: X-repress yourself.
Dosage compensation in Caenorhabditis elegans involves the sex-specific recruitment to the X chromosome of a protein complex, the nature of which suggests that there are mechanistic links between chromosome segregation and global transcriptional regulation.
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Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80309-0347, USA. wood@colorado.edu
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D000818:Animals; D017173:Caenorhabditis elegans / Q000235:genetics*; D004303:Dosage Compensation, Genetic; D005786:Gene Expression Regulation; D017238:Genes, Helminth; D008297:Male; D008957:Models, Genetic; D012732:Sex Determination Analysis; D014158:Transcription, Genetic; D014960:X Chromosome; D014998:Y Chromosome