Comparative population genomics of the ejaculate in humans and the great apes

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 964-976

  Good, Jeffrey M ^a,b   Wiebe, Victor ^a   Albert, Frank W ^a   Burbano, Hernán A ^a   Kircher, Martin ^a   Green, Richard E ^a   Halbwax, Michel ^a   André, Claudine ^c   Atencia, Rebeca ^d   Fischer, Anne ^a   Pääbo, Svante ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

^c Lola Ya Bonobo Sanctuary ^*  (Congo)

^d The Jane Goodall Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

male reproduction; molecular evolution; sexual selection; sperm competition

Indexed keywords

APE; ARTICLE; BONOBO; CHIMPANZEE; COMPARATIVE GENE MAPPING; COMPARATIVE POPULATION GENOMICS; CROSS HYBRIDIZATION; EXON; EXTANT SPECIES; GENE CONTROL; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LIBRARY; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOMICS; GORILLA; HUMAN; IMMUNITY; MATING; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEXUAL SELECTION; SPERM; SPERM COMPETITION;

ANIMALS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; EXONS; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; HOMINIDAE; HUMANS; MALE; METAGENOMICS; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; SEMEN; SEMINAL PLASMA PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

ANIMALIA; HOMINIDAE; PAN;

EID: 84875630778     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/mst005     Document Type: Article

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