Recombination shapes the diversification of the wtf meiotic drivers.

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Meiotic drivers are selfish genetic elements that distort fair segregation. The wtf genes are poison-antidote meiotic drivers that are experiencing rapid diversification in fission yeasts. However, gene duplication alone is insufficient to drive the diversification of wtf genes, given the poison encoded by a newly duplicated wtf gene can be detoxified by the antidote encoded by the original wtf gene. Here, we...

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