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Science 31 January 2003:
Vol. 299. no. 5607, pp. 670 - 671
DOI: 10.1126/science.1082030
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Perspectives

GENETICS:
Where Do Male Genes Live?

Christian Schlötterer

One might predict that in males, genes that are expressed in male-specific tissues such as the testis would be found on the single X chromosome (the Y chromosome containing very few functional genes). Not so, explains Schlötterer in his Perspective, which discusses new work showing that in the fruit fly male-biased genes are found predominantly on the autosomes and not on the X chromosome (Parisi et al.).

The author is at the Institut für Tierzucht und Genetik, Veterinärmedizinische Universität Wien, 1210 Wien, Austria. E-mail: christian.schloetterer{at}vu-wien.ac.at

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