Rapid evolution of a primate sperm protein: Relaxation of functional constraint or positive Darwinian selection?

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 706-710

  Rooney, Alejandro P ^a   Zhang, Jianzhi ^b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Intron; Positive selection; Primates; Protamine; Sperm competition; Sperm proteins

Indexed keywords

PROTAMINE;

ARTICLE; BOVIDS; CHIMPANZEE; EVOLUTION; GUINEA PIG; HUMAN; INTRON; MACACA; NATURAL SELECTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SPERM; SPERMATOGENESIS;

BOVIDAE; CAVIA; CAVIA PORCELLUS; CERCOPITHECIDAE; CERVIDAE; DARWINIA; HOMO; MACACA; MAMMALIA; PAN TROGLODYTES; PRIMATES; RODENTIA; SUS SCROFA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0032931263     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.molbev.a026153     Document Type: Article

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