Article
Genetic scrambling as a defence against meiotic drive.
Journal of theoretical biology - 21 Dec 1991
Haig D, Grafen A
Abstract excerpt
Genetic recombination has important consequences, including the familiar rules of Mendelian genetics. Here we present a new argument for the evolutionary function of recombination based on the hypothesis that meiotic drive systems continually arise to threaten the fairness of meiosis. These drive systems act at the expense of the fitness of the organism as a whole for the benefit of the genes involved. We show...
Topics
- Alleles
- Biological Evolution
- Meiosis
- Models, Genetic
- Recombination, Genetic