A suppressor of a wtf poison-antidote meiotic driver acts via mimicry of the driver's antidote.
Meiotic drivers are selfish alleles that subvert gametogenesis to increase their transmission into progeny. Drivers impose a fitness cost, putting pressure on the genome to evolve suppressors. Here we investigate the wtf gene family from Schizosaccharomyces pombe, previously shown to contain meiotic...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2018-11-01
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| Series: | PLoS Genetics |
| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1007836 |