Finding a Balance: How Diverse Dosage Compensation Strategies Modify Histone H4 to Regulate Transcription

Table 1

Summary of H4K16ac and H4K20me1 modifications on the dosage compensated X chromosomes.

	Levels of histone modification on the dosage compensated X chromosome(s)
	H4K16ac	References	H4K20me1	References
Drosophila	Enriched on male X	[81–84]	Low levels on male X	[30]
C. elegans	Depleted from hermaphrodite Xs	Figure 4; MW, GC; (unpublished)	Enriched on hermaphrodite Xs	Figure 4; MW, GC; (unpublished); [110, 111]
Therian mammals	Decreased on the inactive X	[34, 114–117]	Enriched on the inactive X	[34]