… in birds or addressed whether known features of avian meiosis are susceptible to … -sense
meiotic drive is an unlikely mechanism of sex ratio adjustment in birds (box 1), avian meiosis …

… meiotic drivers in wild isolates. We discovered that wtf13 found in lab stocks is a meiotic
driver. … We then mated this haploid strain to a wild-type Sk haploid to generate hemizygous Sp …

… drive allele experience no direct fitness cost to mating with heterozygous males. Because it
is difficult to detect, the general importance of meiotic drive … suggests that meiotic drive may …

… Meiotic drive was first formally described in the 1950s and is thought to be a powerful
force shaping eukaryotic genomes. Classic genetic analyses have detected the action of …

… predictions of the meiotic drive hypothesis of … meiotic drive. In chapter 3, I report the
discovery of autosomal suppressors of drive, a Y-linked suppressor, a cryptic (suppressed) driver…

… are influenced by the presence of sex chromosome meiotic drive [ … 21 mated in order we-be,
24 mated in order be-we; 23 mated first to the male with higher sperm viability, 22 mated first …

… Polyandry may also defend against meiotic drive. Males that are heterozygous for a meiotic
drive … Studies of plant and animal mating systems have traditionally focused on different …

… of meiotic drivers commonly inflict costs on their mates … , a meiotic driver that shows strong
transmission distortion in males and is typically homozygote lethal. As a consequence, mating …

… may be halved in males carrying a meiotic drive allele, heterozygous females could reduce
the risk of producing defective offspring by mating multiply and placing such males at a …

… In a recent paper, we proposed that females mate with more than … of meiotic drive in females,
suggests that a general feature of vertebrate meiosis, postponement of the second meiotic …