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Maintenance or loss of genetic variation under sexual and parental antagonism at a sex-linked locus.
Evolution; international journal of organic evolution - 1 Nov 2009
Patten Manus M, Haig David
Abstract excerpt
An intralocus genetic conflict occurs when a locus is selected in opposing directions in different subsets of a population. Populations with two sexes have the potential to host a pair of distinct intralocus conflicts: sexual antagonism and parental antagonism. In this article, we examine the population genetic consequences of these conflicts for X-linked genes. Both conflicts are capable of maintaining genetic...
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