Modeling the Evolution of Female Meiotic Drive in Maize

Autosomal drivers violate Mendel’s law of segregation in that they are overrepresented in gametes of heterozygous parents. For drivers to be polymorphic within populations rather than fixing, their transmission advantage must be offset by deleterious effects on other fitness components. In this pape...

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Main Authors: David W. Hall, R. Kelly Dawe
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Oxford University Press 2018-01-01
Series:G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics
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Online Access:http://g3journal.org/lookup/doi/10.1534/g3.117.300073