… In an independent study, Du and co-workers at the National Institute of Biological Sciences in
Beijing – including Wen Hu as first author – identified two other genes from the wtf gene family …

… Abstract Spore killers in fungi are selfish genetic elements that distort Mendelian … Both
killers belong to the previously uncharacterized wtf gene family with 25 members in the reference …

… Within this region, they found a selfish-driver gene called wtf4 – a member of a large and
cheekily-named gene family – which creates both a poison and an antidote. … By …

The gene names in the example of the two-gene model provided on panel B of Figure 1 were
incorrectly spelled and abbreviated. We have corrected this error by replacing the sentence…

… genetic interactions are detailed here for gene families, in which there may be redundancy
or genetic compensation of different genes, for genes … Martin) “cheating Mendel” because the …

… If sufficiently common, these arms races may have important consequences for the evolution
of stable Mendelian transmission, gametogenesis, recombination rates, genome structure, …

… into how drive elements cheat the rules of Mendelian inheritance. Beyond these technical …
used to identify and characterize loci that defy Mendelian segregation. We then profile several …

… The film also hints at the need for taking a unified Darwinian-Mendelian and Hippocratic
approach toward building a healthier human society. In short, this is a beautiful and engrossing …

… genetics is the concept that gametes are equally likely to carry either of the two parental
copies of a gene. Selfish genetic elements can cheat, however, by subverting Mendelian …

… for almost a century, primarily because it cheats Mendel’s first law: males … gene called
SmokTcr was isolated in 1999 [48]. It is part of the sperm motility kinase (Smok) multi-gene family …