Article
Sex-ratio segregation distortion associated with reproductive isolation in Drosophila.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 6 Nov 2001
Tao Y, Hartl D L, Laurie C C
Abstract excerpt
Sex-ratio distortion is the most common form of non-Mendelian segregation observed in natural populations. It may occur even more frequently than direct observations suggest, because the dysgenic population consequences of a biased sex ratio are expected to result in the rapid evolution of suppressors, resulting in suppressed or "cryptic" segregation distortion. Here we report evidence for cryptic sex-ratio...
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