Duplication and concerted evolution in a master sex determiner under balancing selection

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 280, Issue 1758, 2013, Pages

  Privman, Eyal ^a,b   Wurm, Yannick ^a,b,c   Keller, Laurent ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^b SWISS INSTITUTE OF BIOINFORMATICS   (Switzerland)

^c QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Concerted evolution; Gene duplication; Hymenoptera; Sex determination; Transformer

Indexed keywords

ANT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FLY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC DIFFERENTIATION; GENOMICS; RECOMBINATION; SELECTION; SEX DETERMINATION; SIGNALING;

EID: 84874767470     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2012.2968     Document Type: Article

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