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A cancer-causing gene is positively correlated with male aggression in Xiphophorus cortezi.
Journal of evolutionary biology - 1 Feb 2010
Fernandez A A
Abstract excerpt
The persistence of seemingly maladaptive genes in organisms challenges evolutionary biological thought. In Xiphophorus fishes, certain melanin patterns form malignant melanomas because of a cancer-causing gene (Xiphophorus melanoma receptor kinase; Xmrk), which arose several millions years ago fr...
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