Journal article
EVOLUTION OF THE CLOSELY RELATED, SEX‐RELATED GENES DM‐W AND DMRT1 IN AFRICAN CLAWED FROGS (XENOPUS)
Abstract
DM-W is a dominant, female-specific, regulator of sex determination in the African clawed frog Xenopus laevis. This gene is derived from partial duplication of DMRT1, a male-related autosomal gene. We set out to better understand sex determination in Xenopus by studying this pair of genes. We found that DM-W evolved in Xenopus after divergence from the sister genus Silurana but before divergence of X. laevis and X. clivii, and that DM-W arose …
Authors
Bewick AJ; Anderson DW; Evans BJ
Journal
Evolution, Vol. 65, No. 3, pp. 698–712
Publisher
Oxford University Press (OUP)
Publication Date
March 2011
DOI
10.1111/j.1558-5646.2010.01163.x
ISSN
0014-3820