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ArticleInternational journal of evolutionary biology2012

Sex and speciation: Drosophila reproductive tract proteins- twenty five years later.

Rama Singh, Santosh Jagadeeshan

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Article in International journal of evolutionary biology, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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  1. Article
  2. Causes and evolutionary consequences of primordial germ-cell specification mode in metazoans.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2017
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  3. Origins of eukaryotic sexual reproduction.Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in biology · 2014
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Rama SinghDepartment of Biology, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada L8S 4K1.
Santosh Jagadeeshan

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The protein electrophoresis revolution, nearly fifty years ago, provided the first glimpse into the nature of molecular genetic variation within and between species and showed that the amount of genetic differences between newly arisen species was minimal. Twenty years later, 2D electrophoresis showed that, in contrast to general gene-enzyme variation, reproductive tract proteins were less polymorphic within species but highly diverged between species. The 2D results were interesting and revolutionary, but somewhat uninterpretable because, at the time, rapid evolution and selective sweeps were not yet part of the common vocabulary of evolutionary biologists. Since then, genomic studies of sex and reproduction-related (SRR) genes have grown rapidly into a large area of research in evolutionary biology and are shedding light on a number of phenomena. Here we review some of the major and current fields of research that have greatly contributed to our understanding of the evolutionary dynamics and importance of SRR genes and genetic systems in understanding reproductive biology and speciation.

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