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Independent recruitment of F box genes to regulate hermaphrodite development during nematode evolution.
Current biology : CB - 17 Nov 2009
Guo Yiqing, Lang Shirley, Ellis Ronald E
Abstract excerpt
Elucidating the molecular mechanisms that created ancient complex traits like insect wings is difficult. Fortunately, some complex traits have arisen recently. For example, hermaphroditic reproduction evolved independently many times during recent nematode evolution. Although C. elegans hermaphrodites require fog-2, which encodes an F box protein that regulates the translation of tra-2 mRNAs, the related species...
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