Molecular evolutionary analysis of a gender-limited MID ortholog from the homothallic species Volvox africanus with male and monoecious spheroids

• Kayoko Yamamoto,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Science, the University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan

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• Hiroko Kawai-Toyooka,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Supervision

  Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Science, the University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan

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• Takashi Hamaji,

  Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Science, the University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan

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• Yuki Tsuchikane,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Visualization

  Affiliation Department of Chemical and Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, Japan Women's University, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan

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• Toshiyuki Mori,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Supervision

  Affiliation Department of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology, School of Medicine, Juntendo University School of Medicine, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan

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• Fumio Takahashi,

  Roles Investigation, Resources, Supervision

  Affiliation College of Life Sciences, Ritsumeikan University, Kusatsu-shi, Shiga, Japan

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• Hiroyuki Sekimoto,

  Roles Methodology, Supervision

  Affiliation Department of Chemical and Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, Japan Women's University, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan

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• Patrick J. Ferris,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America

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• Hisayoshi Nozaki

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: nozaki@bs.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp

  Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Science, the University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9308-4498

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