Sexual selection and the adaptive evolution of mammalian ejaculate proteins

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 207-219

  Ramm, Steven A ^a   Oliver, Peter L ^b   Ponting, Chris P ^b   Stockley, Paula ^a   Emes, Richard D ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d KEELE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adaptive evolution; Positive selection; Primates; Rodents; Sexual selection; Sperm competition

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID;

ARTICLE; COPULATION; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; EJACULATION; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; GENE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HUMAN; MAMMAL; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PROSTATE; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REPRODUCTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEMG1 GENE; SEMG2 GENE; SEMINAL VESICLE; SEXUAL SELECTION; TESTIS;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; MALE; PROSTATIC SECRETORY PROTEINS; RODENTIA; SELECTION (GENETICS); SEMINAL VESICLE SECRETORY PROTEINS; TESTIS;

MAMMALIA; MUROIDEA; PRIMATES; RODENTIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 38349134018     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msm242     Document Type: Article

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