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Ejaculate sperm number compensation in stalk-eyed flies carrying a selfish meiotic drive element
Meiotic drive genes cause the degeneration of non-carrier sperm to bias transmission in their favour. Males carrying meiotic drive are expected to suffer reduced fertility due to the loss of sperm and associated harmful side-effects of the mechanisms causing segregation distortion. However, sexual s...
Autores principales: | Meade, Lara C., Dinneen, Deidre, Kad, Ridhima, Lynch, Dominic M., Fowler, Kevin, Pomiankowski, Andrew |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Springer International Publishing
2018
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6781104/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30467401 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41437-018-0166-y |
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