Figure 3 | Heredity

Figure 3

From: ‘Escaping’ the X chromosome leads to increased gene expression in the male germline of Drosophila melanogaster

Figure 3

Expression of autosomal and X-linked reporter gene insertions in adult males. The upper row shows the mean β-galactosidase activity of transformants with autosomal (grey bars) and X-linked (open bars) insertions of each reporter gene construct. Each bar represents an independent insertion at a different genomic location. The lower row shows the relative expression of the lacZ gene as determined using qRT-PCR. For each construct, the expression of the lowest line is set to 1 and all other expression values are scaled accordingly. The order of the bars corresponds to that in the upper row. In all cases, autosomal expression was significantly greater than X-linked expression (Mann–Whitney test, P<0.001). Error bars indicate the s.d.

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