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The genomic location of sexually antagonistic variation: some cautionary comments.
Evolution; international journal of organic evolution - 1 May 2010
Fry James D
Abstract excerpt
Sexually antagonistic polymorphisms are polymorphisms in which the allele that is advantageous in one sex is deleterious in the other sex. In an influential 1984 paper, W. Rice hypothesized that such polymorphisms should be relatively common on the X chromosome (or on the W in female-heterogametic species) but relatively rare on the autosomes. Here, I show that there are plausible assumptions under which the...
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