Rates of protein evolution are positively correlated with developmental timing of expression during mouse spermatogenesis

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 1044-1052

  Good, Jeffrey M ^a   Nachman, Michael W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Mus musculus; Pleiotropy; Sexual selection; Sperm development; X chromosome

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENT; EVOLUTION; GAMETOGENESIS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME; HUMAN; MALE; MEIOSIS; MORPHOGENESIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SEXUAL SELECTION; SPERMATID; SPERMATOGENESIS;

ANIMALS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; MALE; MICE; PROTEINS; SELECTION (GENETICS); SPERMATOGENESIS;

EID: 16344383665     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msi087     Document Type: Article

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