Xmrks the spot: Life history tradeoffs, sexual selection and the evolutionary ecology of oncogenesis

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 19, Issue 15, 2010, Pages 3022-3024

  Summers, Kyle ^a   Crespi, Bernard J ^b  

^a EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FISH PROTEIN; ONCOPROTEIN; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE; XMRK PROTEIN, XIPHOPHORUS;

ALLELE; ANIMAL; CYPRINODONTIFORMES; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; MALE; MATE CHOICE; MELANOMA; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; REVIEW;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; CYPRINODONTIFORMES; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; FISH PROTEINS; GENE FREQUENCY; MALE; MATING PREFERENCE, ANIMAL; MELANOMA; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; RECEPTOR PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; SELECTION, GENETIC;

ANIMALIA; XIPHOPHORUS;

EID: 77954838941     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: 1365294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2010.04739.x     Document Type: Review

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