A flurry of sex-ratio distorters

December 3, 2021/in Scholarly Literature

A flurry of sex-ratio distorters

Tags: Transmission distortion
A. A. Vogan, Nature Ecology and Evolution, 2021.

Two analyses of long-read sequencing show that the Winters sex-ratio distorter of Drosophila has been a part of a recent gene family expansion, coupled to the appearance of suppressors, in a genomic arms race driven by satellite DNA.