Article
Meiotic Drive and Speciation.
Annual review of genetics - 1 Nov 2024
Searle Jeremy B, Pardo-Manuel de Villena Fernando
Abstract excerpt
Meiotic drive is the biased transmission of alleles from heterozygotes, contrary to Mendel's laws, and reflects intragenomic conflict rather than organism-level Darwinian selection. Theory has been developed as to how centromeric properties can promote female meiotic drive and how conflict between the X and Y chromosomes in males can promote male meiotic drive. There are empirical data that fit both the...
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