Evolution of Genes Involved in Gamete Interaction: Evidence for Positive Selection, Duplications and Losses in Vertebrates

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 2012, Pages

  Meslin, Camille ^a,b,c,d   Mugnier, Sylvie ^e   Callebaut, Isabelle ^f   Laurin, Michel ^g   Pascal, Géraldine ^a,b,c,d   Poupon, Anne ^a,b,c,d   Goudet, Ghylène ^a,b,c,d   Monget, Philippe ^a,b,c,d  

^a UMR85 PHYSIOLOGIE DE LA REPRODUCTION ET DES COMPORTEMENTS   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE TOURS   (France)

^d IFCE   (France)

^e UNIVERSITÉ DE BOURGOGNE   (France)

^f UNIVERSITÉ PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE   (France)

^g MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID;

ACR GENE; ADAM15 GENE; ADAM1A GENE; ADAM3 GENE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BIRD; CELL INTERACTION; CLADISTICS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EVOLUTION; FERTILIZATION; FUT5 GENE; GENE; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE LOSS; GENETIC SELECTION; GERM CELL; IGSF8 GENE; NIDATION; NONHUMAN; PARSIMONY ANALYSIS; PLACENTAL MAMMALS; PSEUDOGENE; REPRODUCTION; SPA17 GENE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPERMATOCYTE; SPESP1 GENE; TAXONOMY; TELEOST; VERTEBRATE; XENOPUS; ZAN GENE; ZONA PELLUCIDA; ZP3R GENE; ZPAX GENE;

ANIMALS; BIRDS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; FISHES; GENE DUPLICATION; GERM CELLS; MALE; MAMMALS; MODELS, GENETIC; PHYLOGENY; SELECTION, GENETIC; SPERM-OVUM INTERACTIONS; SPERMATOZOA; VERTEBRATES; XENOPUS;

AMNIOTA; AVES; EUTHERIA; TELEOSTEI; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84866037420     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0044548     Document Type: Article

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