Article
Male-driven evolution of DNA sequences.
Nature - 22 Apr 1993
Shimmin L C, Chang B H, Li W H
Abstract excerpt
It is commonly believed that the mutation rate is much higher in the human male germ line than in the female germ line because the number of germ-cell divisions per generation is much larger in males than in females. But direct estimation of mutation rates is difficult, relying mainly on sex-link...
Topics
- Animals
- Base Sequence
- Biological Evolution
- DNA
- DNA-Binding Proteins
- Female
- Humans
- Kruppel-Like Transcription Factors
- Male
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Mutation
- Papio
- Pongo pygmaeus
- Saimiri
- Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid
- Sex Factors
- Transcription Factors
- X Chromosome