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Hoisted with his own petard: How sex-ratio meiotic drive in Drosophila affinis creates resistance alleles that limit its spread.
Journal of evolutionary biology - 1 Dec 2022
Ma Wen-Juan, Knoles Emma M, Patch Kistie B, Shoaib Murtaza M, Unckless Robert L
Abstract excerpt
Meiotic drivers are selfish genetic elements that tinker with gametogenesis to bias their own transmission into the next generation of offspring. Such tinkering can have significant consequences on gametogenesis and end up hampering the spread of the driver. In Drosophila affinis, sex-ratio meiotic drive is caused by an X-linked complex that, when in males with a susceptible Y chromosome, results in broods that...
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