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Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington, Box 357730, Seattle, Washington 8195-7730, USA
Correspondence should be addressed to W J Swanson; Email: wswanson{at}gs.washington.edu
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Because reproductive proteins regulate essential processes that fundamentally influence fitness, such high levels of diversity and divergence are remarkable and suggest reproductive proteins may frequently evolve as the result of adaptive evolution. A variety of statistical tests show a signature of adaptive evolution among reproductive proteins (Swanson & Vacquier 2002). This emerging pattern of the adaptive significance of reproductive proteins leads to two intriguing questions. First: what are the selective forces driving reproductive protein evolution? Do selective pressures result from exogenous sources (e.g. microbial attack) or endogenous sources mediated by gametes during fertilization (e.g. conflicts between male and female fitness)? Studies are beginning to suggest co-evolution between interacting pairs of male and female proteins during reproduction may be a major force driving the adaptive evolution of reproductive proteins (Swanson & Vacquier 2002). Secondly: what are the functional consequences of reproductive protein diversification? Experimental studies show functional domains of reproductive proteins evolving under adaptive evolution are sufficient to result in reproductive isolation among closely related species (Lyon & Vacquier 1999, Sainudiin et al. 2005). This has direct implications for both mechanisms and rates of speciation (Coyne & Orr 2004). Addressing questions such as these not only enriches the field of evolutionary biology, but also has significant practical applications in plant and animal breeding and in human health.
In this review, we provide a brief discussion of statistical approaches for identifying proteins under positive selection. We then outline characteristic stages of reproduction for animals and plants from post-copulation (or deposition of pollen on the stigma for plants) through fertilization. Our emphasis is on reviewing the literature that provides evidence of positive selection for specific proteins acting at these reproductive stages.
| Statistical tests for positive selection |
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The second class of statistical tests focuses primarily on divergence among species, including several methods employing the codon-substitution models developed by Goldman & Yang (1994) designed to test for adaptive divergence in the amino acid sequence of proteins. These tests are intuitively appealing in their use of the non-synonymous (amino acid changing, dN) to synonymous (dS) nucleotide substitution ratio to define the type of selection. Because dS provides an approximation of the neutral rate of substitution, dN/dS = 1 indicates amino acid changing substitutions are neutral. In contrast, dN/dS > 1 indicates a selective advantage to amino acid substitutions in a protein consistent with adaptive divergence among species. Several different implementations of these models allow for variation in dN/dS among branches of a phylogeny (Yang 1998), among amino acid sites within a protein (Nielsen & Yang 1998, Yang et al. 2000b), or among sites on particular lineages (Yang & Nielsen 2002). Tests for adaptive divergence among species using these models have become popular in part because of their power to detect selection, which is expected to frequently act only along discrete lineages or at specific sites within a protein (Yang & Nielsen 2002) and because of their potential utility in predicting which sites are the targets of positive selection (Anisimova et al. 2002).
| Stages of reproduction: animals |
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The oviductal environment around the time of ovulation stimulates the maturation of both spermatozoa and eggs in preparation for fertilization and development. The steps and factors regulating maturation of gametes are largely unknown; furthermore, the steps are likely to be very different between divergent taxonomic groups. Maturation is crucial for fertilization; for example, mammalian sperm are incapable of fertilization upon insemination and must pass through steps of capacitation to gain this capability (Yanagimachi 1994). It has been argued that capacitation is under the synergistic influence of adjoining portions of the female reproductive tract culminating in an appropriate amount of capacitated sperm meeting the newly ovulated egg (Hunter & Rodriguez-Martinez 2004). If events are so synergistically controlled, then a sophisticated set of interactions between gametes and the oviductal microenvironment awaits discovery. In mammals, three known effectors of sperm motility and capacitation are beta-amino acids, bicarbonate ions and progesterone (Boatman 1997). Maturation of post-ovulatory eggs is also required for fertilization. One factor in the oviduct known to affect mammalian eggs is oviductin (OGP), which binds the egg and sperm surfaces and facilitates gamete recognition (Boatman & Magnoni 1995).
Efficient navigation of the female tract through chemo-taxis would bring large benefits to sperm charged with the daunting task of finding an egg. Among animals, human sperm have been shown to chemotax to follicular fluid (Ralt et al. 1991), and sperm from the abalone (Haliotis rufescens), a free-spawning marine invertebrate, chemotax to an egg-released amino acid, L-tryptophan (Riffell et al. 2002). This attractant works species-specifically as demonstrated in experiments with sperm from closely related abalone species (Riffell et al. 2004). It is not known if chemotaxis guides sperm to other important areas of the female reproductive tract, such as sperm storage sites.
Mating often occurs before ovulation, making sperm storage necessary. Sperm storage has been reported among insects, mollusks, annelids, mammals, birds, reptiles and sharks (Neubaum & Wolfner 1999a, Ferraguti et al. 2002). A great variety of storage systems exist, and specialized sperm storage organs have evolved in several taxonomic groups, including several independent instances in reptiles, birds and insects (Burke et al. 1972, Neubaum & Wolfner 1999b, Sever & Hamlett 2002). These organs are often modified outpocketings or tubules, frequently called spermathecae. Drosophilid flies have two separate sperm storage sites, both a seminal vesicle for storage of ejaculate and spermathecae. Sperm retention times vary widely between species and can steadily supply gametes over days or even over years (Neubaum & Wolfner 1999b). In mammals, copulation is usually timed to be a peri-ovulatory event, and sperm is stored for a relatively short period of a few days in a specialized region of the Fallopian tube (Hunter & Rodriguez-Martinez 2004). Yet mechanisms to prolong sperm storage do exist in mammals; for example, female bats are able to store sperm for months (Racey 1979). Little is known about which male or female factors are responsible for proper channeling, storage and protection of sperm during these periods. Progress in identifying these factors has been made in Drosophila species, in which seminal proteins are seen to affect sperm storage (e.g. Acp36DE, Acp29AB) (Wolfner 2002).
Sperm encounter several threats in the female reproductive tract, including foreign pathogens and the female immune system (Austin 1975). Drosophila transfers antibacterial proteins in seminal plasma (Lung et al. 2001), and several proteins found in human semen (Utleg et al. 2003, Fung et al. 2004) show anti-bacterial activity (PIP, CAMP, lactotransferrin, transferrin, MSMB). Mammalian semen contains prostaglandin E, which locally depresses immune response, perhaps to protect sperm from female immune attack (Kelly & Critchley 1997).
Once sperm and egg meet, the sperm must pass several barriers for fertilization to occur. An outermost, gelatinous layer often surrounds the egg and is passed in several species by sperm hypermotility. Beneath the gelatinous layer a substantial egg coat forms a formidable barrier. In several taxa this egg coat is composed of cross-linked glycoprotein, as in the mammalian zona pellucida (Wassarman et al. 2001) and in the abalone vitelline envelope (Swanson & Vacquier 1997). The acrosomal vesicle at the fore of the sperm head contains proteins which, upon release, open a hole in the egg coat by either non-enzymatic dissolution or proteolysis (Lewis et al. 1982, Wassarman et al. 2001). Triggering the release of acrosomal contents is often mediated by species-specific factors present on the egg coat. These egg factors are biochemically diverse with different organisms employing combinations of several molecular classes including polysaccharides, peptides, glycoproteins and saponins (Vacquier 1998).
Once through the egg coat, the last barrier to fertilization is the egg membrane with which the sperm binds and then fuses. Proteins involved in binding are found on the sperm surface or on an extended sperm appendage, the acrosomal process (Swanson & Vacquier 1995b). Recent progress has been made in understanding mammalian membrane fusion, as both a sperm and an egg protein have been shown necessary for gamete fusion (Kaji et al. 2000, Le Naour et al. 2000, Miyado et al. 2000, Inoue et al. 2005). Once all barriers are passed and fusion of the sperm and egg cell membranes is achieved, the nuclei may finally come together to begin animal development.
| Rapidly evolving proteins: animals |
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Once the sperm enter the female reproductive tract, they need to efficiently pass through the reproductive tract and enter sperm storage prior to fertilization. Sperm motility is an obviously important factor for fertilization success and passage through the female reproductive tract. One might predict ion-channels regulating sperm motility would be conserved; yet surprisingly even these genes show rapid divergence. The CatSper1 gene is required for depolarization-evoked calcium entry and hyperactivated flagellar movement (Carlson et al. 2003). When this ion channel was compared amongst primates or rodents, there was extreme diversity found in the length of the N-terminus of the protein (Podlaha & Zhang 2003, Podlaha et al. 2005). The functional outcome of the length variation remains unknown, but comparisons with neutral rates of insertion/deletion events suggest that the length diversity was promoted by positive selection. It has been suggested that the diversity of N-terminal length of CatSper1 could be involved in the rate of channel inactivation. Components of the female reproductive tract are less well studied. One interesting example is the OGP gene, found in the estrous oviductal fluid. The role of OGP remains unclear, but it appears to play a role in species-specific fertilization and has been demonstrated to be subjected to positive selection (Swanson et al. 2003).
Once the sperm reaches the site of fertilization, there are multiple examples of both sperm and egg proteins that show extraordinary rates of evolution between closely related species. One of the first steps of spermegg interaction is binding of the sperm to the egg coat and induction of the sperm acrosome reaction. In sea urchins, there is significant diversity in the structure of the egg jelly coat glycoproteins (Vilela-Silva et al. 2002), which induces the acrosome reaction. Functional assays show that this diversity results in species-specific acrosome reaction induction. Since there are no methods to study the evolution of carbohydrates, the evolutionary forces generating the diversity remain unknown. In mammals, the acrosome reaction is induced by the zona pellucida, an elevated glycoproteinaceous coat (Wassarman et al. 2004). Previously, ZP3 was characterized as the primary receptor for sperm that induces the acrosome reaction. However, recent evidence from multiple knockout mice suggests that the supermolecular structure of the ZP glycoproteins may induce the acrosome reaction (Rankin et al. 2003). At least two of the major components of the zona pellucida show rapid divergence between species. In fact, the ZP2 and ZP3 glycoproteins are among the 10% most different proteins between rodents and humans. By analyses of site-specific dN/dS ratio, it has been shown that ZP3 sites implicated in the species-specific induction of the acrosome reaction have been the target of positive selection (Swanson et al. 2001a).
Once the sperm has undergone the acrosome reaction, it must create a hole in the egg coat through which it will pass. The dissolution of the egg envelope has been intensively studied in abalone, a free-spawning marine invertebrate. Abalone lysin has been shown to species-specifically and non-enzymatically dissolve a hole in the egg vitelline envelope (Lewis et al. 1982). Lysin shows rapid evolution, with exons evolving up to 15 times faster than introns (Metz et al. 1998). By analyses of site-specific dN/dS ratios, particular amino acids have been shown to be the target of positive selection (Yang et al. 2000a). When chimeric lysins of these residues undergoing positive selection are made between species by site-directed mutagenesis, the expected switch in specificity is obtained, indicating a link between the positive selection and functional changes (Lyon & Vacquier 1999). In mammals, it is not clear how the sperm penetrates the egg envelope. The protease acrosin (ACR) was thought to be involved, although knockouts of ACR are still fertile, indicating a redundant function (Baba et al. 1994). Interestingly, ACR does show statistically significant signatures of positive selection consistent with some beneficial function for reproduction (Swanson et al. 2003).
After the sperm passes the egg coat, the final step of fertilization is fusion between the two gametes (Vacquier 1998). Even the molecules involved in the fusion step show extreme diversity. In mammals, the egg receptor regulating fusion appears to be CD9. When CD9 is knocked out, sperm are unable to undergo fusion (Miyado et al. 2000). Positive selection is observed in CD9, and when sites subjected to positive selection are mapped onto the topology the majority fall on the extracellular loops (Swanson et al. 2003). In marine invertebrates, the sea urchin sperm protein bindin has been implicated in spermegg binding and fusion (Vacquier & Moy 1977). Bindin is extremely polymorphic within species, and shows signatures of positive selection between species. One beautiful study of functional differentiation of the alleles showed that sperm with the same bindin genotype as the egg being fertilized had higher fertilization success compared with sperm of another genotype (Palumbi 1999b). Bindins egg receptor also shows extensive divergence between species (Kamei et al. 2000). Finally, the abalone sperm protein sp18 has been implicated in spermegg fusion (Swanson & Vacquier 1995a), and is perhaps the most rapidly evolving metazoan protein discovered (Swanson & Vacquier 1995b).
| Stages of plant reproduction |
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Pollenstigma interactions
Pollen grains are multicellular structures surrounded by a protective multilayered cell wall that maintains the male gametophyte in a desiccated, inert state. In the earliest stages of pollination (Fig. 1B
), pollen grains are deposited on the terminal structures of the pistil called the stigma. Structural characteristics of stigmas vary widely, but can be broadly classified into two categories including those coated with lipid-rich exudates or dry stigma types. Among taxa with wet stigmas, pollen adheres and hydrates indiscriminately. In contrast, species with dry stigmas show a high degree of selectivity. Initial adherence of pollen to dry stigmas appears to result from the structural complexity of the outer cell wall (exine) allowing for species-specific discrimination (Zinkl et al. 1999). The protein- and lipid-rich pollen coat then mobilizes to the site of pollenstigma contact, facilitating binding between specific stigmatic and pollen coat proteins (Heizmann et al. 2000) and effectively cross-linking pollen to the stigma surface. Following cross-linking, pollen hydrates via conduits derived from lipids originating in both the pollen coat and stigmatic cells. Hydration of pollen provides both liquid and nutrients necessary to activate metabolism and begin pollen tube growth. There is strong evidence that both cross-linking and hydration of pollen are selectively mediated in taxa with dry-type stigmas, allowing discrimination among species as well as self-recognition (reviewed in Swanson et al. 2004).
Once hydrated, pollen germinates forming a tube that will grow and extend through the stigma and style (Fig. 1B
) requiring guidance cues as well as energy and nutrients. Most components of these processes are poorly understood. Initial orientation of the pollen tube at the stigma surface probably involves water gradients (Lush et al. 2000) and chemotaxis via diffusible or substrate-bound factors on the stigma (Kim et al. 2003). Pollen tubes migrate superficially (if a hollow style) or invade through the extracellular spaces of stigmatic tissues requiring digestive enzymes. Stylar tissues then provide a tract for pollen tube guidance from which nutrients and other molecules are absorbed. There is some evidence guidance cues may mediate stylar selectivity, allowing for discrimination among pollen tubes (Shimizu & Okada 2000). In addition, molecules produced by the style and translocated to the pollen tube provide selectivity, including well-studied mechanisms allowing for recognition of self-pollen (reviewed in Kao & Tsukamoto (2004) and McClure (2004)).
At the base of the style lies the ovary, often divided by septa into compartments containing one or more ovules enclosing the egg sac (Fig. 1B
). The final guidance cues provided by the pistil direct pollen tubes toward the opening leading to the egg sac (Palanivelu et al. 2003). At this point, a transition occurs between guidance provided by the sporophytic tissues of the pistil and gametophytic tissues including the synergid cells that flank the egg cell (Higashiyama et al. 2003). After the pollen tube penetrates the egg sac both sperm cells are discharged, one fusing with the egg cell to produce the embryo and the other fusing with the diploid central cell to produce triploid endosperm.
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The initial interactions between pollen and stigma resulting in germination of the male gametophyte represent a primary and crucial point of contact during pollination. The genes contributing to these interactions have been studied extensively and provide several examples of positive selection of plant reproductive proteins including those that contribute to sporophytic self-incompatibility (SI) in the Brassicaceae. In sporophytic SI, a single S-locus of suppressed recombination codes for several SI proteins expressed in the pistil and pollen. These include an S-locus receptor kinase (SRK) (Stein et al. 1991), an S-locus glycoprotein (SLG) (Nasrallah et al. 1991), and an S-locus cysteine-rich protein (SCR) (Schopfer et al. 1999, Suzuki et al. 1999). How these genes function to facilitate self-recognition and rejection of self pollen has been reviewed extensively elsewhere (Kachroo et al. 2001, Nasrallah 2002). Self alleles of the pollen coat protein SCR are directly bound by the stigmatic SRK protein, resulting in impaired pollen hydration and germination. Although the stigmatic protein SLG is not necessary for SI, it enhances the response of self-pollen rejection. SRK, SLG and SCR are all highly polymorphic among populations and taxa of Brassicaceae (Nasrallah & Nasrallah 1993, Mable et al. 2003), and alleles are ancient (>2040 million years (Uyenoyama 1997), consistent with balancing or frequency-dependent selection for recognition loci (Takahata & Nei 1990). Adaptive diversification is also evident among all three genes based on dN/dS > 1 (Sato et al. 2002, Takebayashi et al. 2003). Thus positive selection drives the adaptive diversification of SRK, SLG and SCR.
In addition to SCR, there are other Brassicaceae pollen coat proteins that show evidence of adaptive diversification. In a comprehensive study of the major pollen coat proteins from Arabidopsis thaliana, Mayfield et al.(2001) identified six lipid-binding oleosin genes. The N-terminus lipid-binding domains (Ting et al. 1998) share only about 50% amino acid identity and evolve more rapidly than adjacent proteins (Mayfield et al. 2001, Fiebig et al. 2004, Schein et al. 2004). The C-terminus of oleosin genes comprising the pollen coat proteins also evolve rapidly due to duplication and deletion of glycine-rich repetitive domains (Fiebig et al. 2004). Although the repetitive nature of the C-terminus precludes robust tests of positive selection based on comparisons such as dN/dS, repetitive domains are common features of reproductive proteins and have been proposed as a driving force of positive selection between interacting male and female proteins (Swanson & Vacquier 2002).
Another well-studied example of positive selection in plants involves a second type of self-recognition known as gametophytic SI, which shares a common origin among eudicot families including Rosaceae, Solonaceae and Scrophulariaceae (Igic & Kohn 2001). Gametophytic SI in these plant families has long been known to involve a stylar-expressed extracellular S-locus protein (Anderson et al. 1986) that has RNase activity (S-RNase) (McClure et al. 1989). The pollen component of gametophytic SI has only recently been identified (Sijacic et al. 2004) as an S-locus F-box protein tightly linked to the S-RNase gene (SLF) (Lai et al. 2002). The predominant model of gametophytic SI is that SLF directly binds to S-RNAses of the same S-haplotype through recognition of variable domains, protecting the cytotoxic S-RNAse in these SI crosses from inactivation via ubiquitination, as is believed to occur for non-self pollen haplotypes (Kao & Tsukamoto 2004, McClure 2004; but see Sonneveld et al. 2005 for a different interpretation). As with the proteins mediating sporophytic SI, both S-RNAse and SLF show high levels of ancient polymorphism (Ioerger et al. 1990, Entani et al. 2003) consistent with balancing or frequency-dependent selection. Similarly, positive selection acts on S-RNAse and SLF as dN/dS > 1 is evident among functional domains important in recognition of the cognate binding partner (Takebayashi et al. 2003, Ikeda et al. 2004).
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Sperm competition is described as post-mating competition between sperm from different males for fertilization of a females eggs. Cases of multiple-male mating (polyandry) have been observed in which one male sires a disproportionate amount of eggs (Robinson et al. 1994, Birkhead 1998). Sperm competition predicts a continuous, adaptive arms race, whose selective intensity should be comparable with the degree of polyandry. Recent work in primate SEMG2 is consistent with this prediction, showing a correlation between degree of positive selection and degree of polyandry (Dorus et al. 2004). Sperm competition could also drive adaptation of male proteins involved in locating, reaching, binding, penetrating and fusing with the egg. Competition between males may even drive adaptation in inseminated proteins which affect sperm storage in the female tract or which affect female behavior, as seen in Drosophila accessory gland proteins.
Sperm competition may direct evolution toward conditions optimal for the male, but female fitness may be optimal under entirely different conditions. Sexual conflict over adaptive optima is thought to lead females and males to counter-adapt, creating a characteristic co-evolutionary chase between male and female characters (Rice & Holland 1997, Gavrilets 2000). In one scenario of sexual conflict, sperm competition leads to fast rates of fertilization, yet females may benefit from a more moderate rate in order to prevent polyspermic fertilization. The larger energy investment put into female gametes makes poly-spermy more detrimental to female than male fitness. Consequently, female gamete proteins would evolve to lower the fertilization rate, while sperm proteins would continually attempt to raise it in a context of competition. There may also be sexual conflict operating in Drosophila accessory gland proteins, which manipulate female behavior and sperm storage; these interactions probably have differing optima for females and males.
Sexual selection is widely invoked to explain mating behavior and display, and it may also be operating at the level of gametes (Eberhard 1996). If an egg demonstrates a preference for a certain sperm protein allele, assortative mating results. The fact that sea urchin eggs show affinity to sperm of the same bindin genotype suggests sexual selection as a driving force for divergence (Palumbi 1999a).
Reinforcement is the evolution of reproductive barriers to prevent hybrids. In a case where hybridization between allopatric populations results in offspring of reduced fit-ness, reinforcement can explain divergence among gamete recognition proteins (Howard 1993). Importantly, reinforcement cannot explain divergence seen in isolated populations, so that the contrast between predictions for allopatric and sympatric populations provides a framework to test reinforcement as a driving force. Particular test cases for reinforcement include gamete recognition proteins, such as lysin and VERL in abalone and bindin and EBR1 in the sea urchin.
The positive selection of SI loci in plants is thought to principally result from selection to avoid inbreeding. Inbreeding depression is common among natural populations of plants as well as those in horticulture (Crnokrak & Roff 1999). If depression is sufficiently strong, it can result in selection for genetic modifiers to avoid inbreeding (Maynard Smith 1971). Once they are established, Wright (1939) showed these loci are subject to negative frequency-dependent selection whereby rare pollen alleles are rejected by pistils at lower rates than common alleles resulting in high allelic diversity within populations. Thus the high levels of polymorphism exhibited by sporophytic SI proteins (SRK, SCR, SLG) as well as gametophytic SI proteins (S-RNase, SLF) reflect the expected outcome of negative frequency-dependent selection acting on genetic loci for avoidance of inbreeding.
Wrights (1939) classic model of negative frequency-dependent selection on SI loci also partially explains adaptive divergence among these SI proteins. Under Wrights model, novel pollen alleles resulting from mutation escape loss due to random genetic drift and are rapidly swept to an equilibrium frequency by selection. If inbreeding depression remains strong, Uyenoyama et al.(2001) showed positive selection can act on compensatory mutations in pistil components of recognition that restore SI, although under complete linkage the mutational pathway for generation of novel functional SI haplotypes in such a two-gene system is complex (Charlesworth 2000, Uyenoyama & Newbigin 2000). Uyenoyama et al.(2001) showed this process of co-evolution between pollen and pistil components of SI can progress even if the initial mutation at the pollen locus incurs substantial inbreeding depression. In sum, disparate selective forces may drive pollen (increased access to mates) and pistil (avoidance of inbreeding depression) SI proteins despite sharing a common evolutionary history due to linkage at the SI locus (Uyenoyama et al. 2001).
The potential forces discussed above result from endogenous forces of the species reproductive system. In contrast, pathogen resistance is an exogenous force that may be driving divergence at these loci. Microbial attack may impose a constant pressure for gamete surface proteins to change to elude attackers (Vacquier et al. 1997). Consequently, proteins that recognize these gametes would need to continually adapt to the new surface. Certainly among broadcast spawning invertebrates gametes encounter several microorganisms, and in internal fertilizers sexually transmitted pathogens may pose a threat to gametes.
Several competing hypotheses have been proposed to explain rapid divergence of reproductive characters. It is important to note that several of these hypotheses have overlapping predictions, making their discernment difficult. We expect that diverse approaches to various mating systems can provide clues necessary to explain positive selection of reproductive proteins.
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A common goal is to determine the driving forces behind the rapid evolution of these proteins. An important approach to distinguishing between the many hypotheses is to create computational models that provide predictions for comparison with observations from natural or experimental systems. Ultimately, comparison of empirical data with theoretical models will be necessary in order to distinguish the mechanisms driving the rapid evolution of reproductive proteins. We must also describe the consequences of this rapid evolution. For example: does directional selection on gamete-recognition proteins contribute to speciation? Can we measure fitness benefits associated with divergent alleles? Answering such questions may reveal the implications of rapid evolution of reproductive proteins on stock management, agriculture and reproductive health.
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All authors contributed equally to this review
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