Rapid evolution of female-biased genes among four species of Anopheles malaria mosquitoes

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Expression divergence rates of the four-species orthologs. (A) Median standard deviations of expression ratios (male/female) of carcass and reproductive tissue male-biased (blue) and female-biased (red) among the four-species orthologs. A Wilcoxon rank-sum test is used to test for significant differences when comparing sex-bias gene expression categories between the sexes (blue asterisks) or to unbiased genes (gray asterisks) and indicates: (*) P-value < 0.05, (**) P-value < 0.001. (B) The number of genes that show qualitative sex and/or tissue bias switches compared to their An. gambiae orthologs increases with evolutionary distance.

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  1. Genome Res. 27: 1536-1548

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