ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2025
A selfish supergene causes meiotic drive through both sexes in
Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.
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- Evolution and domestication-trait associations of ultra-long centromere haplotypes in pepper plants.Nature ecology & evolution · 2026Article
- Elevated rates of nondisjunction in a selfish X chromosome that causes female meiotic drive in Drosophila testacea.Heredity · 2026Article
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- Recombination suppression in plant adaptation and speciation.The New phytologist · 2026Review
- The evolutionary genomics of meiotic drive.Molecular biology and evolution · 2026Article
- A selfish supergene causes meiotic drive through both sexes inProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
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Meiotic drivers are selfish genetic elements that bias their own transmission during meiosis or gamete formation. Due to the fundamental differences between male and female meiosis in animals and plants, meiotic drivers operate through distinct mechanisms in the two sexes: In females, they exploit the asymmetry of meiosis to ensure their inclusion in the egg, whereas in males, they eliminate competing gametes after symmetric meiosis. Meiotic drive is commonly reported in males, where it strongly influences the evolution of spermatogenesis, while the few known cases in females have highlighted its crucial role in centromere evolution. Despite a growing number of examples in a wide range of organisms, meiotic drive has so far only been observed in one sex or the other since its discovery nearly 100 y ago. Here, we show that a selfish X chromosome known to cause meiotic drive in male
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