Neutral and adaptive explanations for an association between caste biased gene expression and rate of sequence evolution

Frontiers in Genetics

Volumn 5, Issue AUG, 2014, Pages 1-27

  Helanterä, Heikki ^a   Uller, Tobias ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE GENE MAPPING; DNA SEQUENCE; DROSOPHILA; EVOLUTIONARY RATE; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE INTERACTION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE PHENOTYPE CORRELATION; HONEYBEE; INSECT CASTE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NONHUMAN; PLEIOTROPY; POLYMORPHIC LOCUS; REPRODUCTION; SOLENOPSIS INVICTA;

EID: 84906273418     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16648021     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2014.00297     Document Type: Article

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