Remote-control meiotic drive of sex chromosomes

• Published in: bioRxiv
• Main Authors: Greenberg, Naomi L, Patten, Manus M, Schenkel, Martijn A
• Format: Paper
• Language: English
• Published: Cold Spring Harbor Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press 21.11.2024; Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
• Edition: 2.1
• Subjects: Chromosomes; Evolutionary Biology; Gene frequency; Meiosis; Meiotic drive; Population genetics; Sex chromosomes; Sex determination; Sex ratio

Some selfish genetic elements drive at meiosis to achieve transmission distortion, breaking the rules of Mendelian segregation to enhance their own evolutionary success. It has been previously shown that positive modifiers of drive must act in cis in order to gain the selfish benefit of drive and th...