Article
Meiotic drive influences the outcome of sexually antagonistic selection at a linked locus.
Journal of evolutionary biology - 1 Nov 2014
Patten M M
Abstract excerpt
Most meiotic drivers, such as the t-haplotype in Mus and the segregation distorter (SD) in Drosophila, act in a sex-specific manner, gaining a transmission advantage through one sex although suffering only the fitness costs associated with the driver in the other. Their inheritance is thus more likely through one of the two sexes, a property they share with sexually antagonistic alleles. Previous theory has shown...
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