Positive Darwinian selection on two homologous fertilization proteins: What is the selective pressure driving their divergence?

Journal of Molecular Evolution

Volumn 44, Issue SUPPL. 1, 1997, Pages

  Vacquier, Victor D ^a   Swanson, Willie J ^a   Lee, Youn Ho ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Darwinian selection; Homologous fertilization proteins; Selective pressure

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; EXOCYTOSIS; GAMETE; GENE DUPLICATION; HYPOTHESIS; INVERTEBRATE; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION;

DARWINIA; ECHINOIDEA; HALIOTIDAE; HALIOTIS CORRUGATA; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 0031037939     PISSN: 00222844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/pl00000049     Document Type: Article

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