Mytilus protamine-like sperm-specific protein genes are multicopy, dispersed, and closely associated with hypervariable RFLP regions.

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Protamine-like sperm packaging proteins replace somatic histones during spermatogenesis, and although the proteins have been well-characterized in many marine invertebrate species, little is known of the arrangement of the genes. The research described here was designed to determine the sequence and structure of the protamine-like PL-III (or "phi 1") gene in marine mussels (Mytilus spp). The PL-III sequence was...

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