Rapid evolution of the sex-determining gene, transformer: Structural diversity and rate heterogeneity among sibling species of drosophila

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 441-452

  Kulathinal, Rob J ^a   Skwarek, Lara ^a   Morton, Richard A ^a   Singh, Rama S ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Developmental system; Neutral evolution; RS domains; Selective constraints; Sex determination; Tandem duplication

Indexed keywords

ARGININE; SERINE;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CODON; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA MAURITIANA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA SECHELLIA; DROSOPHILA SIMULANS; FEMALE; GENE CLUSTER; GENE CONTROL; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE INSERTION SEQUENCE; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MALE; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ONCOGENE; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; SIBLING; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; TANDEM REPEAT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SEX DETERMINATION (GENETICS); VARIATION (GENETICS); X CHROMOSOME; Y CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALIA; ARACHNIDA; DROSOPHILA MAURITIANA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA SECHELLIA; DROSOPHILA SIMULANS; HEXAPODA; INSERTION SEQUENCES; MELANOGASTER; UNIDENTIFIED INSERTION SEQUENCE;

EID: 0037358873     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msg053     Document Type: Article

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