Rate of molecular evolution of the seminal protein gene SEMG2 correlates with levels of female promiscuity

Nature Genetics

Volumn 36, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 1326-1329

  Dorus, Steve ^a   Evans, Patrick D ^a   Wyckoff, Gerald J ^a,b   Sun, Shim Choi ^a   Lahn, Bruce T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI KANSAS CITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SEMENOGELIN; SEMINAL PLASMA PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC CORRELATION; GORILLA; HUMAN; MACACA; MAMMALIAN GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ORANG UTAN; PAN TROGLODYTES; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; POLYANDRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL SELECTION; SPERM COMPETITION; SPERMATOCYTE;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; LINEAR MODELS; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PRIMATES; SELECTION (GENETICS); SEMINAL VESICLE SECRETORY PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL;

MACACA; MAMMALIA; PAN TROGLODYTES; PONGO PYGMAEUS; PRIMATES; TROGLODYTES;

EID: 9644287861     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng1471     Document Type: Article

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