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Dosage compensation is less effective in birds than in mammals

Yuichiro Itoh, Esther Melamed, Xia Yang, Kathy Kampf, Susanna Wang, Nadir Yehya, Atila Van Nas, Kirstin Replogle, Mark R Band, David F Clayton, Eric E Schadt, Aldons J Lusis and Arthur P Arnold*

  • * Corresponding author: Arthur P Arnold arnold@ucla.edu

  • † Equal contributors

Journal of Biology 2007, 6:2 doi:10.1186/jbiol53

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Activity map of the tammar X chromosome shows that marsupial X inactivation is incomplete and escape is stochastic

Shafagh Al Nadaf, Paul D Waters, Edda Koina, Janine E Deakin, Kristen S Jordan, Jennifer AM Graves Genome Biology 2010, 11:R122 (23 December 2010)

Incomplete escape from X inactivation in marsupials is revealed by a map of gene expression from the tammar wallaby X chromosome.

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Neural expression and post-transcriptional dosage compensation of the steroid metabolic enzyme 17β-HSD type 4

Sarah E London, Yuichiro Itoh, Valentin A Lance, Petra M Wise, Preethika S Ekanayake, Randi K Oyama, Arthur P Arnold, Barney A Schlinger BMC Neuroscience 2010, 11:47 (1 April 2010)

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Genomic and neural analysis of the estradiol-synthetic pathway in the zebra finch

Sarah E London, David F Clayton BMC Neuroscience 2010, 11:46 (1 April 2010)

Estrogenic steroid-related genes in the zebra finch and other mammals are largely homologous, but steroidogenic enzyme genes might be less diverse in the finch and the neural expression of a cholesterol transport protein gene might be regulated by hearing song.

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Neuropeptidomic analysis of the embryonic Japanese quail diencephalon

Birger Scholz, Henrik Alm, Anna Mattsson, Anna Nilsson, Kim Kultima, Mikhail M Savitski, Maria Fälth, Karl Sköld, Björn Brunström, Per E Andren, Lennart Dencker BMC Developmental Biology 2010, 10:30 (18 March 2010)

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Sex-dimorphic gene expression and ineffective dosage compensation of Z-linked genes in gastrulating chicken embryos

Shaobing O Zhang, Sachin Mathur, Gaye Hattem, Olivier Tassy, Olivier Pourquié BMC Genomics 2010, 11:13 (7 January 2010)

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The value of avian genomics to the conservation of wildlife

Michael N Romanov, Elaina M Tuttle, Marlys L Houck, William S Modi, Leona G Chemnick, Marisa L Korody, Emily Mork, Christie A Otten, Tanya Renner, Kenneth C Jones, Sugandha Dandekar, Jeanette C Papp, Yang Da, Eric D Green, Vincent Magrini, Matthew T Hickenbotham, Jarret Glasscock, Sean McGrath, Elaine R Mardis, Oliver A Ryder BMC Genomics 2009, 10(Suppl 2):S10 (14 July 2009)

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Sexual differentiation of the zebra finch song system: potential roles for sex chromosome genes

Michelle L Tomaszycki, Camilla Peabody, Kirstin Replogle, David F Clayton, Robert J Tempelman, Juli Wade BMC Neuroscience 2009, 10:24 (23 March 2009)

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The unique genomic properties of sex-biased genes: Insights from avian microarray data

Judith E Mank, Lina Hultin-Rosenberg, Matthew T Webster, Hans Ellegren BMC Genomics 2008, 9:148 (31 March 2008)

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Regulatory RNAs and chromatin modification in dosage compensation: A continuous path from flies to humans?

Roxani Angelopoulou, Giagkos Lavranos, Panagiota Manolakou Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology 2008, 6:12 (20 March 2008)

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The Songbird Neurogenomics (SoNG) Initiative: Community-based tools and strategies for study of brain gene function and evolution

Kirstin Replogle, Arthur P Arnold, Gregory F Ball, Mark Band, Staffan Bensch, Eliot A Brenowitz, Shu Dong, Jenny Drnevich, Margaret Ferris, Julia M George, George Gong, Dennis Hasselquist, Alvaro G Hernandez, Ryan Kim, Harris A Lewin, Lei Liu, Peter V Lovell, Claudio V Mello, Sara Naurin, Sandra Rodriguez-Zas, Jyothi Thimmapuram, Juli Wade, David F Clayton BMC Genomics 2008, 9:131 (18 March 2008)

The Songbird Neurogenomics initiative (SoNG) provides a genomic database, a set of genomic tools and also a mechanism for community collaboration to enhance research linking the genomics, evolution, neuroscience and behavior of songbirds.

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Regional differences in dosage compensation on the chicken Z chromosome

Esther Melamed, Arthur P Arnold Genome Biology 2007, 8:R202 (27 September 2007)

Microarray data analysis revealed a cluster of well compensated genes in the MHM (male-hypermethylated) region on chicken chromosome Zp, whereas Zq is enriched in non-compensated genes. The non-coding MHM RNA may therefore play a role in dosage compensation in the female.

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Faced with inequality: chicken do not have a general dosage compensation of sex-linked genes

Hans Ellegren, Lina Hultin-Rosenberg, Björn Brunström, Lennart Dencker, Kim Kultima, Birger Scholz BMC Biology 2007, 5:40 (20 September 2007)

In a surprising contrast to mammals and flies, in which dosage compensation equalizes gene expression between sex chromosomes, chicken embryos lack global dosage compensation and have large-scale imbalances of sex-linked gene expression between the sexes.

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Differential gene expression in femoral bone from red junglefowl and domestic chicken, differing for bone phenotypic traits

Carl-Johan Rubin, Johan Lindberg, Carolyn Fitzsimmons, Peter Savolainen, Per Jensen, Joakim Lundeberg, Leif Andersson, Andreas Kindmark BMC Genomics 2007, 8:208 (2 July 2007)

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Does gene dosage really matter?

Jennifer Graves, Christine M Disteche Journal of Biology 2007, 6:1 (22 March 2007)