1. Oogamy: inventing the sexes.
- Author
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Kirk DL
- Subjects
- Algal Proteins physiology, Animals, Basic-Leucine Zipper Transcription Factors genetics, Basic-Leucine Zipper Transcription Factors physiology, Chlamydomonas reinhardtii classification, Chlamydomonas reinhardtii genetics, Phylogeny, Polymerase Chain Reaction, Protein Structure, Tertiary, Reproduction genetics, Volvox classification, Volvox genetics, Algal Proteins genetics, Biological Evolution, Chlamydomonas reinhardtii physiology, Genes, Volvox physiology
- Abstract
The male-female dichotomy has evolved independently in nearly all lineages of multicellular organisms. Why this should be the case is still uncertain, but recent studies of mating-type genes in green algae open a promising new way to explore molecular-genetic aspects of the evolution of dichotomous sexes.
- Published
- 2006
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