Pervasive relaxed selection on spermatogenesis genes coincident with the evolution of polygyny in gorillas
J. D. Bowman, N. Silva, E. Schüftan, J. M. Almeida, R. Brattig-Correia, R. A. Oliveira, F. Tüttelmann, D. Enard, P. Navarro-Costa, V. J. Lynch
This study identifies genes under relaxed purifying selection in gorillas linked to male reproductive function, showing their association with human male infertility.
bioRxiv · Oct 27, 2023Evolutionary Biology