Differences between males and females in the optimal phenotype that is favoured by
selection can be resolved by the evolution of differential gene expression in the two sexes …

Methods of transcriptional profiling have made it possible to compare gene expression
between females and males on a genome-wide scale. Such studies have revealed that sex …

The profound and pervasive differences in gene expression observed between males and
females, and the unique evolutionary properties of these genes in many species, have led to …

Why do proteins evolve at different rates? Advances in systems biology and genomics have
facilitated a move from studying individual proteins to characterizing global cellular factors …

Evolutionary genomic studies find that reproductive protein genes, those directly involved in
reproductive processes, diversify more rapidly than most other gene categories. Strong …

The profound differences in gene expression between the sexes are increasingly used to
study the molecular basis of sexual dimorphism, sexual selection and sexual conflict …

Adaptive phenotypic plasticity allows organisms to cope with environmental variability, and
yet, despite its adaptive significance, phenotypic plasticity is neither ubiquitous nor infinite. In …

The Caenorhabditis elegans genome sequence is now complete, fully contiguous telomere
to telomere and totaling 100,291,840 bp. The sequence has catalyzed the collection of …

The X or Z chromosome has several characteristics that distinguish it from the autosomes,
namely hemizygosity in the heterogametic sex, and a potentially different effective …

The nematode Caenorhabditis elegans reproduces primarily by self-fertilization of
hermaphrodites, yet males are present at low frequencies in natural populations …