A flurry of sex-ratio distorters

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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.

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