1. Introduction
2. Results
2.1. Comparing the Expression Patterns of Genes between Chromosomes during Spermatogenesis
2.2. New Genes of Different Ages or Produced by Different Mechanisms Have a Different Expression Pattern across Testis Cells
2.3. MSCI Plays an Important Role in ‘out of the X’ Pattern of New Genes
2.4. New Gene Cases of ‘into the Meiosis’
3. Discussion
4. Materials and Methods
4.1. Datasets of New Genes and scRNA-seq
4.2. Defining the Major Expressed Cell Type of Drosophila Genes
4.3. Comparing the Percentage of Genes in Different Stages between Chromosomes
4.4. Comparing the Expressed Cell Types between the New and Parental Genes
5. Conclusions
Supplementary Materials
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Conflicts of Interest
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