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Can paternal leakage maintain sexually antagonistic polymorphism in the cytoplasm?
Journal of evolutionary biology - 1 Feb 2015
Kuijper B, Lane N, Pomiankowski A
Abstract excerpt
A growing number of studies in multicellular organisms highlight low or moderate frequencies of paternal transmission of cytoplasmic organelles, including both mitochondria and chloroplasts. It is well established that strict maternal inheritance is selectively blind to cytoplasmic elements that are deleterious to males - 'mother's curse'. But it is not known how sensitive this conclusion is to slight levels of...
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