Rapid evolution of male reproductive genes inn the descent of man

Nature

Volumn 403, Issue 6767, 2000, Pages 304-309

  Wyckoff, Gerald J ^a   Wang, Wen ^a   Wu, Chung I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTAMINE;

ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION; GENETIC SELECTION; MALE FERTILITY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NATURAL SELECTION; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMALS; CERCOPITHECIDAE; CHROMOSOMAL PROTEINS, NON-HISTONE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GORILLA GORILLA; HOMINIDAE; HUMANS; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PAN PANISCUS; PAN TROGLODYTES; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; PROTAMINES; REPRODUCTION; SELECTION (GENETICS); SPERMATOZOA;

DARWINIA; INVERTEBRATA; PAN TROGLODYTES; PRIMATES;

EID: 0034688140     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35002070     Document Type: Article

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