Sexual selection and maintenance of sex: Evidence from comparisons of rates of genomic accumulation of mutations and divergence of sex-related genes in sexual and hermaphroditic species of Caenorhabditis

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 972-979

  Artieri, Carlo G ^a   Haerty, Wilfried ^a   Gupta, Bhagwati P ^a   Singh, Rama S ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Caenorhabditis; Deleterious mutation rate; Sexual selection; Sperm

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS; CAENORHABDITIS BRIGGSAE; CAENORHABDITIS REMANEI; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOLUTION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; GENOME; HERMAPHRODITISM; MALE; NONHUMAN; ORTHOLOGY; SEX CHROMOSOME; SEXUAL SELECTION; SPERM; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; CHROMOSOME; FEMALE; GENE; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MUTATION; PHYSIOLOGY; SEX; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; SPERMATOZOON; SYNTENY;

ANIMALIA; CAENORHABDITIS; CAENORHABDITIS BRIGGSAE; CAENORHABDITIS REMANEI;

HELMINTH PROTEIN;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS; CHROMOSOMES; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; GENES, HELMINTH; HELMINTH PROTEINS; HERMAPHRODITISM; MALE; MUTATION; SELECTION (GENETICS); SEX; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SPERMATOZOA; SYNTENY;

EID: 44649176783     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msn046     Document Type: Article

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