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Reproductive protein evolution within and between species: maintenance of divergent ZP3 alleles in Peromyscus.
Molecular ecology - 1 Jun 2008
Turner Leslie M, Hoekstra Hopi E
Abstract excerpt
In a variety of animal taxa, proteins involved in reproduction evolve more rapidly than nonreproductive proteins. Most studies of reproductive protein evolution, however, focus on divergence between species, and little is known about differentiation among populations within a species. Here we investigate the molecular population genetics of the protein ZP3 within two Peromyscus species. ZP3 is an egg coat protein...
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