Pervasive Adaptive Evolution in Mammalian Fertilization Proteins
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Pervasive adaptive evolution in mammalian fertilization proteins.
Mammalian fertilization exhibits species specificity, and the proteins mediating sperm-egg interactions evolve rapidly between species. In this study, we demonstrate that the evolution of seven genes involved in mammalian fertilization is promoted by positive Darwinian selection by using likelihood ratio tests (LRTs). Several of these proteins are sperm proteins that have been implicated in bin...
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عنوان ژورنال: Molecular Biology and Evolution
سال: 2003
ISSN: 1537-1719,0737-4038
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.molbev.a004233