Sexual selection drives weak positive selection in protamine genes and high promoter divergence, enhancing sperm competitiveness

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 276, Issue 1666, 2009, Pages 2427-2436

  Martin Coello, Juan ^a   Dopazo, Hernán ^b   Arbiza, Leonardo ^b   Ausió, Juan ^c   Roldan, Eduardo R S ^a,d   Gomendio, Montserrat ^a,e  

^a MUSEO NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS NATURALES   (Spain)

^b CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIÓN PRÍNCIPE FELIPE   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^d ROYAL VETERINARY COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Gene expression; Protamine genes; Sexual selection; Speciation; Sperm competition; Spermatozoa

Indexed keywords

PROTAMINE; PROTAMINE P1; PROTAMINE P2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADAPTATION; CHROMOSOME; DIVERGENCE; DNA; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; PROTEIN; RODENT; SEXUAL SELECTION; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY); SPERM COMPETITION; SWIMMING;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FERTILIZATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HYDRODYNAMICS; MALE; MALE FERTILITY; MORPHOLOGICAL ADAPTATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SEXUAL SELECTION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPERM COMPETITION; SPERMATOZOON; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY;

EID: 66749129778     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2009.0257     Document Type: Article

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