Evidence for convergent nucleotide evolution and high allelic turnover rates at the complementary sex determiner gene of western and Asian honeybees

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 696-708

  Hasselmann, Martin ^a   Vekemans, Xavier ^b   Pflugfelder, Jochen ^c   Koeniger, Nikolaus ^c   Koeniger, Gudrun ^c   Tingek, Salim ^d   Beye, Martin ^a  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIV LILLE   (France)

^c GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d Agricultural Research Station   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Balancing selection; Convergent adaptive evolution; Genetic drift; Molecular evolution; Nucleotide polymorphism; Sex determination; Social insects

Indexed keywords

NUCLEOTIDE;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; ASIA; COMPLEMENTARY SEX DETERMINER GENE; CONVERGENT EVOLUTION; DIPLOIDY; EXON; FEMALE; GENE; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC DRIFT; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HEMIZYGOSITY; HETEROZYGOSITY; HOMOZYGOSITY; HONEYBEE; LETHALITY; MALE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; POPULATION SIZE;

ALLELES; AMINO ACID MOTIFS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ASIA; ASPARAGINE; BASE SEQUENCE; BEES; EUROPE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; EXONS; FEMALE; GENES, INSECT; INSECT PROTEINS; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEX DETERMINATION (GENETICS); TIME FACTORS; TYROSINE;

APIS CERANA; APIS DORSATA; APIS MELLIFERA; HEXAPODA;

EID: 40849136127     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msn011     Document Type: Article

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