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Specialists and generalists: the sexual ecology of the genome.
Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in biology - 24 Jul 2014
Haig David, Úbeda Francisco, Patten Manus M
Abstract excerpt
Sexual antagonism occurs when an allele is beneficial in one sex but costly in the other. Parental antagonism occurs when an allele is beneficial when inherited from one sex but costly when inherited from the other because of fitness interactions among kin. Sexual and parental antagonisms together define four genetic niches within the genome that favor different patterns of gene expression. Natural selection...
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