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Evolution in the Fast Lane: Rapidly Evolving Sex-Related Genes in Drosophila

Abstract

A large portion of the annotated genes in Drosophila melanogaster show sex-biased expression, indicating that sex and reproduction-related genes (SRR genes) represent an appreciable component of the genome. Previous studies, in which subsets of genes were compared among few Drosophila species, have found that SRR genes exhibit unusual evolutionary patterns. Here, we have used the newly released genome sequences from 12 Drosophila species, …

Authors

Haerty W; Jagadeeshan S; Kulathinal RJ; Wong A; Ram KR; Sirot LK; Levesque L; Artieri CG; Wolfner MF; Civetta A

Journal

Genetics, Vol. 177, No. 3, pp. 1321–1335

Publisher

Oxford University Press (OUP)

Publication Date

November 1, 2007

DOI

10.1534/genetics.107.078865

ISSN

0016-6731