The molecular basis of sex: Linking yeast to human

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 28, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1963-1966

  Swanson, Willie J ^a   Aagaard, Jan E ^a   Vacquier, Victor D ^b   Monné, Magnus ^c,d   Sadat Al Hosseini, Hamed ^c   Jovine, Luca ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^c KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BASILICATA   (Italy)

Author keywords

egg coat; egg sperm interaction; fertilization; protein structure; yeast mating; zona pellucida domain

Indexed keywords

COAT PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; EVOLUTION; EVOLUTIONARY HOMOLOGY; GAMETE; HUMAN; MATING; MOLLUSC; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN DOMAIN; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SEX DETERMINATION; SPERM; STEREORADIOGRAPHY; YEAST; ZONA PELLUCIDA;

ANIMALS; EGG PROTEINS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES, MATING TYPE, FUNGAL; HUMANS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLLUSCA; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SPERM-OVUM INTERACTIONS; ZONA PELLUCIDA;

INVERTEBRATA; MOLLUSCA; PROTISTA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 79959450888     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msr026     Document Type: Article

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