Sexually antagonistic "zygotic drive" of the sex chromosomes.

doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.1000313

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Sexually antagonistic "zygotic drive" of the sex chromosomes.

PLoS genetics - 1 Dec 2008

Rice William R, Gavrilets Sergey, Friberg Urban

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Genomic conflict is perplexing because it causes the fitness of a species to decline rather than improve. Many diverse forms of genomic conflict have been identified, but this extant tally may be incomplete. Here, we show that the unusual characteristics of the sex chromosomes can, in principle, lead to a previously unappreciated form of sexual genomic conflict. The phenomenon occurs because there is selection in...

Topics

Animals
Epigenesis, Genetic
Evolution, Molecular
Female
Humans
Male
Models, Genetic
Models, Theoretical
Phenotype
Selection, Genetic
Sex Chromosomes
Zygote

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PMID: 19096519
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000313
PMCID: PMC2596966

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