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Genetic Villains: Killer Meiotic Drivers.

Trends in genetics : TIG - 1 Jun 2018

Bravo Núñez María Angélica, Nuckolls Nicole L, Zanders Sarah E

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Unbiased allele transmission into progeny is a fundamental genetic concept canonized as Mendel's Law of Segregation. Not all alleles, however, abide by the law. Killer meiotic drivers are ultra-selfish DNA sequences that are transmitted into more than half (sometimes all) of the meiotic products generated by a heterozygote. As their name implies, these loci gain a transmission advantage in heterozygotes by...

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PMID: 29499907
DOI: 10.1016/j.tig.2018.02.003
PMCID: PMC5959745

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