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Empirical Evidence for Son-Killing X Chromosomes and the Operation of SA-Zygotic Drive

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Title
Empirical Evidence for Son-Killing X Chromosomes and the Operation of SA-Zygotic Drive
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PLOS ONE, August 2011
DOI 10.1371/journal.pone.0023508
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Urban Friberg, Andrew D. Stewart, William R. Rice

Abstract

Diploid organisms have two copies of all genes, but only one is carried by each haploid gamete and diploid offspring. This causes a fundamental genetic conflict over transmission rate between alternative alleles. Single genes, or gene clusters, only rarely code for the complex phenotypes needed to give them a transmission advantage (drive phenotype). However, all genes on a male's X and Y chromosomes co-segregate, allowing different sex-linked genes to code for different parts of the drive phenotype. Correspondingly, the well-characterized phenomenon of male gametic drive, occurring during haploid gametogenesis, is especially common on sex chromosomes. The new theory of sexually antagonistic zygotic drive of the sex chromosomes (SA-zygotic drive) extends the logic of gametic drive into the diploid phase of the lifecycle, whenever there is competition among siblings or harmful sib-sib mating. The X and Y are predicted to gain a transmission advantage by harming offspring of the sex that does not carry them.

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Country Count As %
United States 4 16%
Netherlands 1 4%
Germany 1 4%
Unknown 19 76%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 6 24%
Student > Master 5 20%
Student > Ph. D. Student 3 12%
Student > Doctoral Student 2 8%
Student > Bachelor 2 8%
Other 4 16%
Unknown 3 12%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 15 60%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 3 12%
Social Sciences 2 8%
Psychology 1 4%
Environmental Science 1 4%
Other 0 0%
Unknown 3 12%
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