Molecular evolution and population genetic analysis of candidate female reproductive genes in Drosophila.

ABSTRACT: Molecular analyses in several taxa have consistently shown that genes involved in reproduction are rapidly evolving and subjected to positive selection. The mechanism behind this evolution is not clear, but several proposed hypotheses involve the coevolution between males and females. In Drosophila, several male reproductive proteins (Acps) involved in male-male and male-female interactions show evidence of rapid adaptive evolution. What has been missing from the Drosophila literature is the identification and analysis of female reproductive genes. Recently, an evolutionary expressed sequence tag analysis of Drosophila female reproductive tract genes identified 169 candidate female reproductive genes. Many of these candidate genes still await further molecular analysis and independent veri

SUBMITTER: Panhuis TM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC1569687 | biostudies-literature | 2006 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature