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Maternal-effect selfish genes in flour beetles.

Science (New York, N.Y.) - 3 Apr 1992

Beeman R W, Friesen K S, Denell R E

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A previously unknown class of dominant, maternal-effect lethal M factors was found to be widespread in natural populations of the flour beetle, Tribolium castaneum, collected on several continents. Such factors are integrated into the host chromosomes at variable locations and show the remarkable property of self-selection by maternal-effect lethality to all hatchlings that do not inherit a copy of the factor...

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Animals
Coleoptera
Crosses, Genetic
Female
Fertility
Genes, Dominant
Genes, Lethal
Genotype
In Vitro Techniques
Phenotype
Sex Differentiation
Zygote

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PMID: 1566060
DOI: 10.1126/science.1566060

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