Sexual size dimorphism predicts rates of sequence evolution of SPerm Adhesion Molecule 1 (SPAM1, also PH-20) in monkeys, but not in hominoids (apes including humans)

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Volumn 63, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 52-63

  Prothmann, Andreas ^a   Laube, Irina ^a   Dietz, Johanna ^a   Roos, Christian ^b   Mengel, Katja ^a   Zischler, Hans ^a   Herlyn, Holger ^a  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b GERMAN PRIMATE CENTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Female choice; Functional constraint; Mating system; Sexual selection; Sperm competition; Testes weight

Indexed keywords

APOLIPOPROTEIN A; APOLIPOPROTEIN A-IV; APOLIPOPROTEIN A4; CELL ADHESION MOLECULE; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; HYALURONIDASE PH 20; HYALURONIDASE PH-20; HYALURONOGLUCOSAMINIDASE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DNA SEQUENCE; FEMALE; GENETICS; MALE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; ORGAN SIZE; PHYSIOLOGY; PRIMATE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; STATISTICAL MODEL; TESTIS;

ANIMALS; APOLIPOPROTEINS A; CELL ADHESION MOLECULES; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; HYALURONOGLUCOSAMINIDASE; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MALE; MODELS, GENETIC; ORGAN SIZE; PRIMATES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; TESTIS;

CERCOPITHECIDAE; HAPLORHINI; HOMINOIDEA; HOMO; PRIMATES; SIMIIFORMES;

EID: 84857231832     PISSN: 10557903     EISSN: 10959513     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2011.12.008     Document Type: Article

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