Sexual selection halts the relaxation of protamine 2 among rodents.

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 wer...

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Main Authors: Lena Lüke, Alberto Vicens, Francois Serra, Juan Jose Luque-Larena, Hernán Dopazo, Eduardo R S Roldan, Montserrat Gomendio
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/22216223/?tool=EBI