Female-driven mechanisms, ejaculate size and quality contribute to the lower fertility of sex-ratio distorter males in Drosophila simulans

BACKGROUND: Sex-ratio meiotic drive refers to the preferential transmission of the X chromosome by XY males. The loss of Y-bearing sperm is caused by an X-linked distorter and results in female-biased progeny. The fertility of sex-ratio (SR) males expressing the distorter is usually strongly reduced...

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Autores principales: Angelard, Caroline, Montchamp-Moreau, Catherine, Joly, Dominique
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2008
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2612008/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19055718
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2148-8-326

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2612008/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19055718
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2148-8-326

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