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SUBMITTER: Luke L
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3244444 | biostudies-literature | 2011
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Lüke Lena L Vicens Alberto A Serra Francois F Luque-Larena Juan Jose JJ Dopazo Hernán H Roldan Eduardo R S ER Gomendio Montserrat M
PloS one 20111221 12
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 were not associated with the evolutionary rates of protamine 1 but, contrary to expectations, were negatively related to the evolutionary rate of cleaved- and mature-protamine 2. Since both domains were ...[more]