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Evolution at the mouse t complex: why is the t haplotype preserved as an integral unit?
Evolution; international journal of organic evolution - 1 Oct 2000
van Boven M, Weissing F J
Abstract excerpt
Segregation distorters are selfish genetic elements that bias Mendelian segregation in their favor. All well-known segregation distortion systems consist of one or more "distorter" loci that act upon a "responder" locus. At the t complex of the house mouse, segregation distortion is brought about by the harmful effect of t alleles at a number of distorter loci on the wild-type variant of the responder locus. The...
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