Evolutionary Biology: the Origins of Two Sexes

Overview

Journal Curr Biol

Publisher Cell Press

Specialty Biology

Date 2010 Jul 13

PMID 20620906

Citations 7

Authors

Deborah Charlesworth

Brian Charlesworth

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Abstract

Evidence is accumulating that in the green algae the evolution of female and male gametes differing in size--anisogamy--involves genes linked to the mating-type locus, as was predicted theoretically.

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