Article
The molecular evolution of sperm bindin in six species of sea urchins (Echinoida: Strongylocentrotidae).
Molecular biology and evolution - 1 Dec 1998
Biermann C H
Abstract excerpt
The acrosomal protein bindin attaches sperm to eggs during sea urchin fertilization. Complementary to ongoing functional biochemical studies, I take a comparative approach to explore the molecular evolution of bindin in a group of closely related free-spawning echinoid species. Two alleles of the...
Topics
- Alleles
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Amino Acid Substitution
- Animals
- Base Sequence
- Conserved Sequence
- Evolution, Molecular
- Female
- Genetic Variation
- Glycoproteins
- Male
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Phylogeny
- Point Mutation
- Receptors, Cell Surface
- Sea Urchins
- Sequence Alignment
- Sequence Homology, Amino Acid