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Positive and Purifying Selection Influence the Evolution of Doublesex in the Anastrepha fraterculus Species Group

The gene doublesex (dsx) is considered to be under strong selective constraint along its evolutionary history because of its central role in somatic sex differentiation in insects. However, previous studies of dsx used global estimates of evolutionary rates to investigate its molecular evolution, wh...

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Main Authors: Sobrinho, Iderval S., de Brito, Reinaldo A.
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: Public Library of Science 2012
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3302808/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22428050
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0033446
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