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Sex-Specific Selection and Sex-Biased Gene Expression in Humans and Flies

Sexual dimorphism results from sex-biased gene expression, which evolves when selection acts differently on males and females. While there is an intimate connection between sex-biased gene expression and sex-specific selection, few empirical studies have studied this relationship directly. Here we c...

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Autores principales: Cheng, Changde, Kirkpatrick, Mark
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5033347/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27658217
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1006170