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The mate recognition protein gene mediates reproductive isolation and speciation in the Brachionus plicatiliscryptic species complex

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Ecology and Evolution, August 2012
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Title
The mate recognition protein gene mediates reproductive isolation and speciation in the Brachionus plicatiliscryptic species complex
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BMC Ecology and Evolution, August 2012
DOI 10.1186/1471-2148-12-134
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Authors

Kristin E Gribble, David B Mark Welch

Abstract

Chemically mediated prezygotic barriers to reproduction likely play an important role in speciation. In facultatively sexual monogonont rotifers from the Brachionus plicatilis cryptic species complex, mate recognition of females by males is mediated by the Mate Recognition Protein (MRP), a globular glycoprotein on the surface of females, encoded by the mmr-b gene family. In this study, we sequenced mmr-b copies from 27 isolates representing 11 phylotypes of the B. plicatilis species complex, examined the mode of evolution and selection of mmr-b, and determined the relationship between mmr-b genetic distance and mate recognition among isolates.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 30 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 8 27%
Researcher 7 23%
Professor > Associate Professor 3 10%
Other 2 7%
Student > Master 2 7%
Other 6 20%
Unknown 2 7%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 17 57%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 5 17%
Unspecified 1 3%
Environmental Science 1 3%
Business, Management and Accounting 1 3%
Other 3 10%
Unknown 2 7%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 2. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 05 August 2012.
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#16,046,765
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#2,697
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#42
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