Sexual selection halts the relaxation of protamine 2 among rodents

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 12, 2011, Pages

  Lüke, Lena ^a   Vicens, Alberto ^a   Serra, Francois ^b   Luque Larena, Juan Jose ^c   Dopazo, Hernán ^b   Roldan, Eduardo R S ^a   Gomendio, Montserrat ^a  

^a MUSEO NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS NATURALES   (Spain)

^b CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIÓN PRÍNCIPE FELIPE   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSIDAD DE VALLADOLID   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; PROTAMINE; PROTAMINE P1; PROTAMINE P2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CLADISTICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRICETIDAE; EVOLUTIONARY RATE; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC SELECTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PROTEIN CLEAVAGE; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; RODENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SEXUAL SELECTION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPERM COMPETITION; SPERMATOZOON MATURATION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; EVOLUTION; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTAMINES; RODENTIA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL;

EID: 83755174276     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0029247     Document Type: Article

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