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SUBMITTER: Parker DJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6789136 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Parker Darren J DJ Bast Jens J Jalvingh Kirsten K Dumas Zoé Z Robinson-Rechavi Marc M Schwander Tanja T
Nature communications 20191011 1
Males and females feature strikingly different phenotypes, despite sharing most of their genome. A resolution of this apparent paradox is through differential gene expression, whereby genes are expressed at different levels in each sex. This resolution, however, is likely to be incomplete, leading to conflict between males and females over the optimal expression of genes. Here we test the hypothesis that gene expression in females is constrained from evolving to its optimum level due to sexually ...[more]