Meiotic drivers are selfish genetic elements that bias their transmission into gametes, often
to the detriment of the rest of the genome. The resulting intragenomic conflicts triggered by …

Meiotic drivers are a class of selfish genetic elements whose existence is frequently hidden
due to concomitant suppressor systems. Accordingly, we know little of their evolutionary …

Sex chromosomes are susceptible to the evolution of selfish meiotic drive elements that bias
transmission and distort progeny sex ratios. Conflict between such sex-ratio drivers and the …

Meiotic drive, the non-Mendelian transmission of chromosomes to the next generation,
functions in asymmetric or symmetric meiosis across unicellular and multicellular organisms …

Sex ratio distortion (sex-ratio for short) has been reported in numerous species such as
Drosophila, where distortion can readily be detected in experimental crosses, but the …

Publisher Summary This chapter reviews that in many plants and animals, heterozygotes for
a genetic marker do not yield the expected equality of the two alleles in their progeny. This …

Mendel's Law of equal segregation states that each of the two alleles in a diploid organism
has an equal probability of being transmitted into... Meiotic drive occurs when a selfish …

The evolution of heteromorphic sex chromosomes creates a genetic condition favoring the
invasion of sex-ratio meiotic drive elements, resulting in the biased transmission of one sex …

MATERIALS AND METHODS D. paramelanica is a member of the D. melanica species
group. It is found in North America with its known range bounded roughly by a line running …

Selfish genetic elements use a myriad of mechanisms to drive their inheritance and ensure
their survival into the next generation, often at a fitness cost to its host. 1, 2 Although the …