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

The castes of social insects provide outstanding opportunities to address the causes and consequences of evolution of discrete phenotypes, i.e., polymorphisms. Here we focus on recently described patterns of a positive association between the degree of caste-specific gene expression and the rate of...

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Autores principales: Helanterä, Heikki, Uller, Tobias
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4148897/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25221570
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fgene.2014.00297