Decarvalho, ABK, L. B.,
Heredity,
73:573-579.
1994.
X-linked meiotic drive causing female-biased progenies is known to occur in nine Drosophila species and is called ‘sex-ratio’. In D. mediopunctata this trait is associated with the X:21 chromosome inversion and has variable expression. We describe here a powerful Y-linked suppressor system of sex-ratio expression in this species. There are two types of Y chromosomes (suppressor and nonsuppressor) and two types of X:21 chromosomes (suppressible and unsuppressible). Sex-ratio expression is suppressed in males with the 21 (suppressible)/Y-suppressor genotype, whereas the remaining three genotypes produce female-biased progenies.
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