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q-bio.PE2013★ 175 cited
An Adaptive Threshold in Mammalian Neocortical Evolution
Eric Lewitus, Iva Kelava, Alex T. Kalinka +2
Expansion of the neocortex is a hallmark of human evolution. However, it remains an open question what adaptive mechanisms facilitated its expansion. Here we show, using gyrencepha…
q-bio.PE2012★ 40 cited
An excess of gene expression divergence on the X chromosome in Drosophila embryos; implications for the faster-X hypothesis
Melek A. Kayserili, Dave T. Gerrard, Pavel Tomancak +1
The X chromosome is present as a single copy in the heterogametic sex, and this hemizygosity is expected to drive unusual patterns of evolution on the X relative to the autosomes.…