Sexually antagonistic selection in human male homosexuality

PLoS ONE

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 2008, Pages

  Ciani, Andrea Camperio ^a   Cermelli, Paolo ^b   Zanzotto, Giovanni ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FERTILITY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC TRAIT; HEREDITY; HOMOSEXUALITY; HOMOZYGOTE; HUMAN; MALE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PEDIGREE ANALYSIS; POPULATION GENETICS; SEXUALLY ANTAGONISTIC SELECTION; X CHROMOSOME LINKAGE;

EID: 49149106184     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0002282     Document Type: Article

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