Pervasive Adaptive Evolution in Primate Seminal Proteins
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Pervasive Adaptive Evolution in Primate Seminal Proteins
Seminal fluid proteins show striking effects on reproduction, involving manipulation of female behavior and physiology, mechanisms of sperm competition, and pathogen defense. Strong adaptive pressures are expected for such manifestations of sexual selection and host defense, but the extent of positive selection in seminal fluid proteins from divergent taxa is unknown. We identified adaptive evo...
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عنوان ژورنال: PLoS Genetics
سال: 2005
ISSN: 1553-7404
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.0010035