A 2-locus model for polymorphism for sex-linked meiotic drive modifiers with possible applications to Aedes aegypti

A 2-locus model for polymorphism for sex-linked meiotic drive modifiers with possible applications to Aedes aegypti

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Maffi, GJ, S. D.,  Theoretical Population Biology,  19:19-36. 1981.

A two-locus model is presented which shows the possibility of maintaining a polymorphism for modifiers of sex-linked meiotic drive in the absence of fitness differences. The model is very similar to the situation actually found in some laboratory strains of the mosquito Aedes aegypti. The existence of a stable polymorphism usually requires sufficiently loose linkage between the two loci.