
Keywords: gamete-killing
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Autosomal suppression and fitness costs of an old driving X chromosome in Drosophila testaceaG. Keais, S. Lu and S. Perlman, Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 2020.![]() Driving X chromosomes (XDs) are meiotic drivers that bias their own transmission through males by killing Y-bearing gametes. These chromosomes can in theory spread rapidly in populations and cause extinction, but many are found as balanced polymorphisms or as ?cryptic? XDs shut ... Keywords: driving X, drosophila, gamete-killing, Gene drive, gene drvie natural, genetic conflict, genomic conflict, meiotic drive, segregation distortion, selfish genetic elements, sex-ratio, X chromosome |

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