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Selective trade-offs and sex-chromosome evolution in Silene latifolia.
Evolution; international journal of organic evolution - 1 Sept 2006
Scotti Ivan, Delph Lynda F
Abstract excerpt
Alleles of sexually antagonistic genes (i.e., genes with alleles affecting fitness in opposite directions in the two sexes) can avoid expression in the sex to which they are detrimental via two processes: they are subsumed into the nonrecombining, sex-determining portion of the sex chromosomes or...
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