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Sexual Selection Halts the Relaxation of Protamine 2 among Rodents

Sexual selection has been proposed as the driving force promoting the rapid evolutionary changes observed in some reproductive genes including protamines. We test this hypothesis in a group of rodents which show marked differences in the intensity of sexual selection. Levels of sperm competition wer...

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Autores principales: Lüke, Lena, Vicens, Alberto, Serra, Francois, Luque-Larena, Juan Jose, Dopazo, Hernán, Roldan, Eduardo R. S., Gomendio, Montserrat
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3244444/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22216223
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0029247