X chromosome dosage compensation: how mammals keep the balance

B Payer, JT Lee - Annual review of genetics, 2008 - annualreviews.org
The development of genetic sex determination and cytologically distinct sex chromosomes
leads to the potential problem of gene dosage imbalances between autosomes and sex …

Sex chromosomes and the evolution of sexual dimorphism: lessons from the genome

JE Mank - The American Naturalist, 2009 - journals.uchicago.edu
Females and males of many animals exhibit a striking array of sexual dimorphisms, ranging
from the primary differences of the gametes and gonads to the somatic differences often …

Effective population size and the faster-X effect: empirical results and their interpretation

JE Mank, B Vicoso, S Berlin, B Charlesworth - Evolution, 2010 - academic.oup.com
The X or Z chromosome has several characteristics that distinguish it from the autosomes,
namely hemizygosity in the heterogametic sex, and a potentially different effective …

The evolutionary genomics of birds

H Ellegren - Annual review of ecology, evolution, and …, 2013 - annualreviews.org
Rapidly accumulating genome sequence information in birds, which show several unique
genomic features, provides novel insights into evolutionary genomics. The avian karyotype …

Positive selection underlies faster-Z evolution of gene expression in birds

R Dean, PW Harrison, AE Wright… - … biology and evolution, 2015 - academic.oup.com
The elevated rate of evolution for genes on sex chromosomes compared with autosomes
(Fast-X or Fast-Z evolution) can result either from positive selection in the heterogametic sex …

A bird's-eye view of sex chromosome dosage compensation

AP Arnold, Y Itoh, E Melamed - Annu. Rev. Genomics Hum …, 2008 - annualreviews.org
Intensive study of a few genetically tractable species with XX/XY sex chromosomes has
produced generalizations about the process of sex chromosome dosage compensation that …