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Maternal effect killing by a supergene controlling ant social organization

A. Avril, J. Purcell, S. Béniguel and M. Chapuisat, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2020.

Supergenes are clusters of linked loci producing complex alternative phenotypes. In a series of experiments, we demonstrate that a supergene controlling ant social organization distorts Mendel’s laws to enhance its transmission to adult offspring. One supergene haplotype is ...
Keywords: drosophila-melanogaster, gene drive evolution, gene drive mechanism, gene drive models, gene drive natural, gene drive synthetic, Genetics & Heredity, genome size, green beard, homing endonuclease genes, male-sterility, natural-selection, population dynamics, segregation distortion, sex-ratio, transposable elements

Selfish genetic elements

Agren, JAC, A. G., PLOS Genetics, 14:20. 2018.

Selfish genetic elements (historically also referred to as selfish genes, ultra-selfish genes, selfish DNA, parasitic DNA, genomic outlaws) are genetic segments that can enhance their own transmission at the expense of other genes in the genome, even if this has no or a negative ...
Keywords: drosophila-melanogaster, gene drive evolution, gene drive mechanism, gene drive models, gene drive natural, gene drive synthetic, Genetics & Heredity, genome size, green beard, homing endonuclease genes, male-sterility, natural-selection, population dynamics, segregation distortion, sex-ratio, transposable elements