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Identification, RNAi knockdown, and functional analysis of an ejaculate protein that mediates a postmating, prezygotic phenotype in a cricket.
PloS one - 23 Oct 2009
Marshall Jeremy L, Huestis Diana L, Hiromasa Yasuaki, Wheeler Shanda, Oppert Cris, Marshall Susan A, Tomich John M, Oppert Brenda
Abstract excerpt
Postmating, prezygotic phenotypes, especially those that underlie reproductive isolation between closely related species, have been a central focus of evolutionary biologists over the past two decades. Such phenotypes are thought to evolve rapidly and be nearly ubiquitous among sexually reproducing eukaryotes where females mate with multiple partners. Because these phenotypes represent interplay between the male...
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