Cell biology: Selfish B chromosomes unleashed by a dysfunctional chromosome segregation system
Cell biology: Selfish B chromosomes unleashed by a dysfunctional chromosome segregation system
Tags: Chromosomal drive, Fruit fly, Selfish genetic elementsP. Ferree, Current Biology, 33:R431-R434. 2023.
A study in the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster shows that a defective chromosome segregation system allows non-essential B chromosomes to transmit at higher-than-Mendelian frequencies.