Evolutionary genetics and implications of small size and twinning in callitrichine primates

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 111, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 1467-1472

  Harris, R Alan ^a   Tardif, Suzette D ^b,c   Vinar, Tomas ^d   Wildman, Derek E ^e   Rutherford, Julienne N ^f   Rogers, Jeffrey ^a   Worley, Kim C ^a   Aagaard, Kjersti M ^a  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

^c SOUTHWEST NATIONAL PRIMATE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^d Faculty of Natural Sciences   (Slovakia)

^e WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Primate evolution; Reproductive biology

Indexed keywords

BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN; GROWTH FACTOR;

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; BMP19 GENE; BMP4 GENE; CALLIMICO; CALLITRICHINAE; CHIMERA; DIZYGOTIC TWINS; GDF9 GENE; GENE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC LINE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENOME; LITTER SIZE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MULTIPLE PREGNANCY; NONHUMAN; OVULATION; PLATYRRHINI; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; SHEEP; SIBLING; WFIKKN1 GENE;

PRIMATE EVOLUTION; REPRODUCTIVE BIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BODY SIZE; CALLITHRIX; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; REPRODUCTION;

EID: 84893370784     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1316037111     Document Type: Article

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