Article
Sex-dependent dominance maintains migration supergene in rainbow trout.
Nature ecology & evolution - 1 Dec 2019
Pearse Devon E, Barson Nicola J, Nome Torfinn, Gao Guangtu, Campbell Matthew A, Abadía-Cardoso Alicia, Anderson Eric C, Rundio David E, Williams Thomas H, Naish Kerry A, Moen Thomas, Liu Sixin, Kent Matthew, Moser Michel, Minkley David R, Rondeau Eric B, Brieuc Marine S O, Sandve Simen Rød, Miller Michael R, Cedillo Lucydalila, Baruch Kobi, Hernandez Alvaro G, Ben-Zvi Gil, Shem-Tov Doron, Barad Omer, Kuzishchin Kirill, Garza John Carlos, Lindley Steven T, Koop Ben F, Thorgaard Gary H, Palti Yniv, Lien Sigbjørn
Abstract excerpt
Males and females often differ in their fitness optima for shared traits that have a shared genetic basis, leading to sexual conflict. Morphologically differentiated sex chromosomes can resolve this conflict and protect sexually antagonistic variation, but they accumulate deleterious mutations. However, how sexual conflict is resolved in species that lack differentiated sex chromosomes is largely unknown. Here we...
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