A large gene family in fission yeast encodes spore killers that subvert Mendel's law
W Hu, ZD Jiang, F Suo, JX Zheng, WZ He, LL Du - Elife, 2017 - elifesciences.org
… 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 …
killers belong to the previously uncharacterized wtf gene family with 25 members in the reference …
The gene family that cheats Mendel
SJ Dylan, R Antonis - eLife, 2017 - search.proquest.com
… 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 …
cheekily-named gene family – which creates both a poison and an antidote. … By …
[HTML][HTML] The gene family that cheats Mendel
JD Shropshire, A Rokas - Elife, 2017 - elifesciences.org
… 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 …
Beijing – including Wen Hu as first author – identified two other genes from the wtf gene family …
Correction: Heredity: The gene family that cheats Mendel
JD Shropshire, A Rokas - Elife, 2017 - elifesciences.org
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…
incorrectly spelled and abbreviated. We have corrected this error by replacing the sentence…
[HTML][HTML] Genes that bias Mendelian segregation
… Mendel laws of inheritance can be cheated by Meiotic Drive Elements (MDs), complex nuclear
genetic … We show that they are related genes with both spore-killing distorter and spore-…
genetic … We show that they are related genes with both spore-killing distorter and spore-…
Mendel: Source code recommendation based on a genetic metaphor
… In this paper we present Mendel, a source code recommendation tool that aids developers
in answering … An initial validation of Mendel seems to confirm the potential of our approach. …
in answering … An initial validation of Mendel seems to confirm the potential of our approach. …
Satellite DNA-mediated diversification of a sex-ratio meiotic drive gene family in Drosophila
CA Muirhead, DC Presgraves - Nature Ecology & Evolution, 2021 - nature.com
… If sufficiently common, these arms races may have important consequences for the evolution
of stable Mendelian transmission, gametogenesis, recombination rates, genome structure, …
of stable Mendelian transmission, gametogenesis, recombination rates, genome structure, …
Meiotic drive in house mice: mechanisms, consequences, and insights for human biology
… how drive elements cheat the rules of Mendelian inheritance. … characterize loci that defy
Mendelian segregation. We then … -expressed ampliconic gene families that are hypothesized …
Mendelian segregation. We then … -expressed ampliconic gene families that are hypothesized …
[HTML][HTML] A Chronicle on Genetics and the March of Darwinian and Mendelian Medicine
DR Govindaraju - 2020 - evolution-outreach.biomedcentral …
… 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 …
approach toward building a healthier human society. In short, this is a beautiful and engrossing …
The evolution of cheating and selfish behavior
… Here we have assumed that the Mendelian segregation ratios hold exactly within families
instead of using the binomial approach taken in the previous case. The two approaches give …
instead of using the binomial approach taken in the previous case. The two approaches give …