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ArticleGenome research2007

Contrasting evolution of expression differences in the testis between species and subspecies of the house mouse.

Christian Voolstra, Diethard Tautz, Patrick Farbrother, Ludwig Eichinger, Bettina Harr

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Article in Genome research, 2007. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 39 papers.

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39 citing papers in PubMed, 79 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

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5 authors at 1 institution in 2 countries.

Christian VoolstraInstitute for Genetics, Department of Evolutionary Genetics, University of Cologne, 50674 Köln, Germany.
Diethard Tautz
Patrick Farbrother
Ludwig Eichinger
Bettina Harr
University of Cologne · DE

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Regulatory changes in genes involved in reproduction are thought to be prime targets for divergence during speciation, since they are expected to play an important role in sexual selection and sexual conflict. We used microarray analysis of RNA from different wild populations of house mouse subspecies (including Mus m. musculus, Mus m. domesticus, and Mus m. castaneus) and from the sister species Mus spretus to test this assumption. A comparison of expression divergence in brain, liver/kidney, and testis shows a major difference in the evolutionary dynamics of testis-related genes. While the comparison between species confirms an excess in divergence in testis genes, we find that all comparisons between subspecies yield only a very small number of genes with significantly different expression levels in the testis. These results suggest that the early phase of the speciation process may not be driven by regulatory changes in genes that are potential targets of sexual selection, and that the divergence in these genes is only established during a later phase of the speciation process.

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Gene ExpressionGenetic SpeciationAnimalsBase SequenceBrainEvolution, MolecularGene Expression ProfilingKidneyMaleMiceMice, Inbred C57BLOligonucleotide Array Sequence AnalysisSpecies SpecificityTestis

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PMID17038563
PMCPMC1716265
OpenAlexW2111986073

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