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Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics
Vol. 33:
161-179
(Volume publication date November 2002)
(doi:10.1146/annurev.ecolsys.33.010802.150439)
First published online as a Review in Advance on August 6, 2002REPRODUCTIVE PROTEIN EVOLUTION Willie J. Swanson1,2 and Victor D. Vacquier2 1Department of Biology, University of California, Riverside, California 92521; email: willies@citrus.ucr.edu 2Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington, Box 357730, Seattle, Washington 98195-7730 3Center for Marine Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093; email: vvacquier@ucsd.edu ▪ Abstract The evolution of proteins involved in reproduction is only now beginning to be studied. A reoccurring observation is the rapid evolution of the molecules mediating reproductive events following the release of gametes. We review the examples where rapid evolution of reproductive proteins has been documented, covering taxa ranging from diatoms to humans. The selective pressures causing this divergence remain unknown, but several hypotheses are presented. The functional consequences of this rapid divergence could be involved in speciation. Most recent citing papers (via CrossRef) Detecting the Genetic Signature of Natural Selection in Human Populations: Models, Methods, and Data Annual Review of Anthropology 37:197-217 (2008) Gamete Recognition in Higher Plants: An Abstruse but Charming Mystery Journal of Integrative Plant Biology 50(7):868-874 (2008) Reproductive protein evolution within and between species: maintenance of divergent ZP3 alleles in Peromyscus Molecular Ecology 17(11):2616-2628 (2008) The Tempo and Mode of Three‐Dimensional Morphological Evolution in Male Reproductive Structures. The American Naturalist 171(5):E158-E178 (2008) Detection and characterization of Gamete-Specific molecules inMytilus edulis using selective antibody production Molecular Reproduction and Development (2008)
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