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SUBMITTER: Andres JA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2596363 | biostudies-literature | 2008 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Proceedings. Biological sciences 20080901 1646
In many animals, male seminal proteins influence gamete interactions and fertilization ability and are probably involved in barriers to gene flow between diverging lineages. Here we use a proteomic approach to identify seminal proteins that are transferred to females during copulation and that may be involved in fertilization barriers between two hybridizing field crickets (Gryllus firmus and Gryllus pennsylvanicus). Analyses of patterns of divergence suggest that much of the field cricket genom ...[more]