Article
Sexual and parental antagonism shape genomic architecture.
Proceedings. Biological sciences - 7 Nov 2013
Patten Manus M, Ubeda Francisco, Haig David
Abstract excerpt
Populations with two sexes are vulnerable to a pair of genetic conflicts: sexual antagonism that can arise when alleles have opposing fitness effects on females and males; and parental antagonism that arises when alleles have opposing fitness effects when maternally and paternally inherited. This paper extends previous theoretical work that found stable linkage disequilibrium (LD) between sexually antagonistic...
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