The evolution of male-female sexual dimorphism predates the gender-based divergence of the mating locus gene MAT3/RB

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1038-1040

  Hiraide, Rintaro ^a   Kawai Toyooka, Hiroko ^a   Hamaji, Takashi ^b   Matsuzaki, Ryo ^a   Kawafune, Kaoru ^a   Abe, Jun ^c   Sekimoto, Hiroyuki ^d   Umen, James ^e   Nozaki, Hisayoshi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c CHUO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d JAPAN WOMEN'S UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e DONALD DANFORTH PLANT SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

gender based divergence; gene conversion; male female sexual dimorphism; MAT3 RB; mating type locus; volvocine algae

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN MAT3; RETINOBLASTOMA PROTEIN; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALLELE; ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ARTICLE; CHLAMYDOMONADALES; GENE CONVERSION; GENE LOCUS; HAPLOTYPE; MATING; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; SEX DIFFERENCE; VOLVOX; VOLVOX CARTERI;

BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CHLAMYDOMONAS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PLANT PROTEINS; VOLVOX;

ALGAE; VOLVOX CARTERI;

EID: 84876582438     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/mst018     Document Type: Article

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