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Modeling the Evolution of Female Meiotic Drive in Maize.
G3 (Bethesda, Md.) - 4 Jan 2018
Hall David W, Dawe R Kelly
Abstract excerpt
Autosomal drivers violate Mendel's law of segregation in that they are overrepresented in gametes of heterozygous parents. For drivers to be polymorphic within populations rather than fixing, their transmission advantage must be offset by deleterious effects on other fitness components. In this paper, we develop an analytical model for the evolution of autosomal drivers that is motivated by the neocentromere...
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