In the dosage compensation pathway, no homolog of genes msl1 and msl2 were found while the one of the rest three genes msl3, mle and mof were found, which was confirmed that mechanism of dosage compensation is lacking in silkworm.

• 在剂量补偿途径中，3个基因msl3、mle和mof在家蚕中具有同源体，msl1和msl2基因在家蚕没有同源体，这进一步证明了家蚕缺乏剂量补偿机制；